 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1869 - 596 sivua
...did ne'er unroll : Chill penury repressed their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the 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. Some village Hampden, that... | |
 | Hugh James Rose - 1875 - 402 sivua
...barren steppes of La Mancha. Well has an English poet sung : — " 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 one never sees a Manchegaii servant-maid without a hiccough. CHAPTER XIV. THE SPANISH MINERS5 UNITED... | |
 | George Wesley Atkinson - 1876 - 366 sivua
...repressed his noble rage, And froze the genial current of his soul. 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 to return from my digression. Jack arose, as we said, to show to the Court cause why sentence of death... | |
 | George Washington Moon - 1876 - 256 sivua
...many". Yet, by a strange caprice of idiom, we say "a great many", "a few'', and "many a"; as: — " 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." GRAY. This form is allowable... | |
 | Jos. A. Loughman - 1878 - 368 sivua
...youth? And what would youth be without hope ? 'Tis true that 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 if you do not endeavour to come forth yourself, think you that your fellowman will push you into prominence.... | |
 | Charles Joseph Barnes - 1884 - 514 sivua
...did ne'er unroll; Chill Penury repressed their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the 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. Some village Ilampdcn,"... | |
 | Joseph Manton Smith - 1885 - 216 sivua
...and faithful servant, enter thou into the joy of thy Lord." " 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 still his life was not lost, for, " He being dead, yet speaketh." Sometimes I have been cast down,... | |
 | Nebraska State Historical Society - 1902 - 614 sivua
...him for her own," But find sweet consolation in the thought — "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 whether the palm of victory is given to you or to me, let us remember those of whom the poet says:... | |
 | Frank McAlpine - 1885 - 446 sivua
...did ne'er unroll; Chill Penury repressed their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the 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. Some village Hampden, that,... | |
 | Samuel Hopkins Willey - 1887 - 450 sivua
...scarcely excites sympathy any more — scarcely longer is it true, that " 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 what of it all ? " Counting one by one, saith the preacher, to find out the account " — what of it... | |
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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. 
