 | Hugh Gawthrop - 1847 - 184 pages
...swayed. Or waked to ecstacy the living lyre. But 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 soul. Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear... | |
 | Asa Humphrey - 1847 - 238 pages
...Or flattery sooth the dull cold ear of death ? But 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 soul. Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear:... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...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 unroll ; Chill Penury repressed their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul. Full many a gem, of purest ray serene, The dark, unfathomed caves of ocean bear... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1848 - 462 pages
...celebrated personages, he said, with a sigh, " But 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 their soul." The word penury, in this stanza, the clerks at least understood, and it excited... | |
 | William Balmbro'. Flower - 1848 - 304 pages
...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 unroll ; Chill Penury repressed their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul. Full many a gem, of purest ray serene, The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1848 - 470 pages
...celebrated personages, he said, with a sigh, " But knowledge to their eyes her ample page, Rich with the spoils of time, did ne'er unroll ; Chill penury repressed their noble r age, And froze the genial current of their soul." The word penury, in this stanza, the clerks at... | |
 | 1872 - 676 pages
...unfavourable to the acquisition of knowledge :— " But knowledge to their eyes her ample page, Bich with the spoils of Time, did ne'er unroll ; Chill penury repressed their noble rage And froze the genial current of their soul." Is this prosaic ? But I do not hope to convince PELAQIUS against his will.... | |
 | M Joseph Denison - 1849 - 254 pages
...PRODUCED ANNUALLY UPON THE POET'S BIRTH-DAY. " But 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 soul." Gray. THO' many a relic yet remains, To grace the festive board ; Drawn from... | |
 | Thomas O'Donoghue - 1850 - 204 pages
...swayed, Or waked to eztacy the living lyre ; But 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 soul." GEAT. A most important explosion to Tory hoary people, who glen the channel which... | |
 | Arethusa Hall - 1851 - 422 pages
...Or waked to ecstasy the living»lyre'. •f But 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 soul. • Full many a gem, of purest ray serene, The dark, unfathomed caves of ocean... | |
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But 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 soul. 
