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" Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear : Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village- Hampden, that, with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood,... "
The Imperial magazine; or, Compendium of religious, moral, & philosophical ... - Page 168
1833
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Poems by George Butt. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. [-II.].

George Butt - 1793 - 254 pages
...its own disappointments, and tremble to repine when it recollects with the admirable Gray, How many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear, How map/ a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Yon, my noble...
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Freemason's Magazine, Or General and Complete Library, Volume 4

1795 - 466 pages
...favourite amusement of drawing. Our elegant poet, GRAY, says, with impressive tenderness, " Full many a gem of purest ray serene, " The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear ; " Full many a flow'r is born to blush unseen, " And waste its sweetness on the desert air." Such, however, was not...
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The Monthly magazine

Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 pages
...boundless waste, where not e'en hops A single step had ventured." And if it be admitted, that " Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear," we only heartily wish that this " Flight into Egypt" were numbered amongst the gems of solitude. There...
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Flora Bedfordiensis, Comprehending Such Plants as Grow Wild in the County of ...

Charles Abbot - 1798 - 396 pages
...TWEEDALE, VICAR OF OAKLEY RAYNES IN BEDFORDSHIRE, AND LATE FZLLOW OF N IW COLLEGE, OXFORD. " Full many a gem of purest ray serene " The dark unfathom'd caves of Ocean bear : " Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, " And waste it's sweetness on the dcsart Air." Gray's Elegy. PRINTED...
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The Historical, biographical, literary, and scientific magazine ..., Volume 2

Robert Bisset - 1800 - 678 pages
...or THE REV. MR. ADAM FERGUSSON, MtNISTER AT MOCUV, !M TH F. HIGHLANDS Of fEKTHSKIXe , ' Full many a gem, of purest ray serene, The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear; Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.' CRAY'S ELEGY. TN our last...
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray LL.B., Late Professor of Modern Languages ...

Thomas Gray - 1799 - 270 pages
...unroll ; Chill Penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul. Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of Ocean bear: Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village Hampden, that,...
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The Beauties of the Poets:: Being a Collection of Moral and Sacred Poetry ...

1800 - 322 pages
...unroll; Chill penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul. Full many a gem of purest ray serene, :•.- .." • ." The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear;; Full many a flow'r is born to blush unseen, : '''. And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village-Hampden,...
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The Poetical Works: Of Thomas Gray, ... with Some Account of His Life and ...

Thomas Gray - 1800 - 302 pages
...unroll; Chill Penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul. Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of Ocean bear: Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air [40]. [40] This beautiful...
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A Rhetorical Grammar: In which the Common Improprieties in Reading and ...

John Walker - 1801 - 424 pages
...line, the rising slide ending the second and third, and the falling the last. EXAMPLE. Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear; Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Gray's Elegy. On Blank Verse....
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Public Characters, Volume 8

1806 - 672 pages
...eager to rescue humble worth from obscurity, conscious of the justice of the poet's remark: Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of Ocean bear ; Full many a flovrer is born to blow unseen, And waste its sweetness in the desert air." We consider ourselves particularly...
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