 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,...  Fun - Page 1021865Full view - About this book
 | Charles Baudelaire - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 264 pages
...Thomas Gray's celebrated "Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard," of a century before: "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." DON JUAN IN HELL (page... | |
 | Rachel R. Baum - Social Science - 1999 - 188 pages
...obscure; Nor Grandeur bear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor. 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. -Thomas Gray (1716-1771)... | |
 | Stephanie Sandler - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 388 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.7 Empson notes that the metaphors... | |
 | Thomas Hardy - Fiction - 1999 - 524 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,... | |
 | Anton Reicha, Peter M. Landey - 222 pages
...epigrams collected under the title LEsprit de Rivarol (1802). [PL] 15Gray, Thomas (1716-71). 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. '6When Horace asks what... | |
 | Timothy Williamson - Knowledge, Theory of - 2002 - 356 pages
...We can construct similar counterexamples to strong verificationism from Gray's stanza: 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. Each of them corresponds... | |
 | Religion - 2000 - 262 pages
...beauty-loving God! In his "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," Gray has these remarkable lines: 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. But those gems unseen in... | |
 | Kent Gramm - History - 2001 - 350 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 desart Air. Some Village-Hampden that... | |
 | Emily Salines - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 306 pages
...Funeral marches to the grave, 11 5 'Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard' flines 53-56) 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. 1 ' ' 'Le Guignon' Pour... | |
 | John Reid - Poetry - 2005 - 153 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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