 | Robert Aglionby Slaney - Agriculture - 1824 - 260 pages
...lamentation of the poet will apply : — " Knowledge to them her ample page Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll ; Chill penury repressed their noble rage, And froze the genial current of their soul." If, however, no future Chatterton or Burns, no Franklin or Watt, should ever... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1825 - 310 pages
...page, Rich with the spoils of time, did ne'er unrol ; Chill penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul. Full many a gem, of purest ray serene, 1?' , The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear : Full many a flow'r is born to blush unseen,... | |
 | Dalgarnoch, Author of Richard Gordon - 1825 - 212 pages
...comparatively ignorant and illiterate. " Knowledge to their eyes her ample page, Rich with the spoils of time, did ne'er unroll; Chill penury repressed their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the sou)." By those, however, who are acquainted with the history and character of our Scottish... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Presses, Issues of - 1826 - 190 pages
...ample page Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1826 - 310 pages
...page, Rich with the spoils of Time, did ne'er 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... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1827 - 412 pages
...page, Rich with the spoils of time, did ne'er 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... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pages
...page, Rich with the spoils of time, did ne'er unrol; Chill Penury repress'd their noble rage, t 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 bor n to blush unseen, And waste... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - Poetics - 1827 - 468 pages
...ample page Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er 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... | |
 | George Merriam - Readers - 1828 - 292 pages
...living lyre. But knowledge to their eyes her ample page, Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er unrol Chill penury repressed their noble rage, And froze...unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village-Hampden, that, with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute,... | |
 | 844 pages
...though it consorts with my philosophy to believe that, s • Full many a gem, of purest ray serene, The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear : Full many...Hampden, that with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood ; Some mute, inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell, guiltless of his... | |
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Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire ; Hands that the rod of empire might have swayed, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre. But knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er... 
