Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear; Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Considerations for Young Men - עמוד 58מאת Jared Bell, Jared Bell Waterbury - 1832 - 205 דפיםתצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
| 1841 - 346 דפים
...evening fell on the hills of Judea. A poet has sweetly sung — " Full many a gem of purest rny serene, The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear ; Full many...unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air." But no such destiny awaited David. The fame of the shepherd's harp spread far and wide. It even reached... | |
| 1841 - 404 דפים
...evening fell on the lulls of Judea. A poet has sweetly sung— "Full many a gem of purest ray aerene, Tho dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear; Full many a flower...unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air." But no such destiny awaited David. The fame of the shepherd's harp spread far and wide. It even reached... | |
| Thomas O'Donoghue - 1850 - 204 דפים
...in their society; my ignorance would not prevail against — " Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear ; Full many...unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air." But, as you partly hear and say that I act as I act, and cannot act otherwise than as 1 do act, which 1... | |
| Mary Ide Torrey - 1853 - 336 דפים
...beauty and variety of scenery. I often think, during my pleasant and solitary ride, of Gray's lines : Pull many a gem, of purest ray serene, The dark, unfathomed caves of ocean bear ; Full many a flower is born to blasli unseen, And waste its sweetness ou the desert air. And I say to myself, these... | |
| 1864 - 588 דפים
...neglected piety which the poet has sung of neglected genius, — 'Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathomed caves* of ocean bear; Full many...unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.' But the time is coming when those gems shall be drawn forth from their obscurity, when those flowers shall... | |
| Samuel Jackson Gardner - 1865 - 324 דפים
...the arrows of small critics have ever fallen harmless, — " Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark, unfathomed caves of ocean bear; Full many...unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air." But where intellectual flowers have been brought to light, thrown off the load of poverty that kept them... | |
| 1865 - 940 דפים
...own hand, and could repeat from memory many and many a page. " Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark, unfathomed caves of ocean bear ; Full many...unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air." But Heaven has its own economies ; and perhaps floral " sweetness " is quite as little wasted upon the... | |
| Robert Kerr - 1866 - 272 דפים
...illustration of their real, yet unknown, worth is well known, — " Full many a gem of purest ray serene. The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear ; Full many...unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air." But even this imperishable lay, which in itself is a crown of glory to its author, must yield the palm... | |
| James Currie (A.M.) - 1866 - 204 דפים
...did ne'er unroll; Chill penury repressed their noble rage, And froze the genial current of their souL Pull many a gem, of purest ray serene, The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear ; Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. EXERCISE CLXXVIIL SINCEEITY.... | |
| John Thomson - 1866 - 256 דפים
...far nobler, and far more heroic than ' he who taketh a city.' ' Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear; Full many...unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.' But the day will declare it, and it will then be seen that ' the Lord knoweth them that are his,' however... | |
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