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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... "
New National First[ -fifth] Reader - Page 437
by Charles Joseph Barnes, J. Marshall Hawkes - 1884
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Essay on the Beneficial Direction of Rural Expenditure

Robert Aglionby Slaney - 1824 - 262 pages
...are to whom the 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...
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An account of the island of Jersey

W. Plees - 1824 - 424 pages
...swayed, " Or waked to extacy the liring 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 their soul." " Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, " Their sober wishes never learned...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...page, Rich with the spoils of time, did ne'er unroll; Chill penury repress'd their noble rage, And irtue on all kinds that grow On earth, made hereby apter to receive Pe serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear ; Pall many a flower is born to blush unseen, . -Л...
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The Actor's Budget: Consisting of Monologues, Prologues, Epilogues, and ...

William Oxberry - 1824 - 402 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 ca^es of Ocean bear : Fu'l many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste...
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Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Volume 2

Thomas Brown - 1824 - 490 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...
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The Poetical Works of Collins, Gray, and Beattie: With Lord Byron's English ...

William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1824 - 478 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 may a flower is born to blush unseen, • And...
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A Visit to Dalgarnoch; Or, Stories of Scottish Piety

Dalgarnoch, Author of Richard Gordon - 1825 - 212 pages
...but still 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...
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Sequel to the English Reader: Or, Elegant Selections in Prose and Poetry ...

Lindley Murray - 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,...
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Elegant Extracts: Book V. Pindaric, Horatian, and other odes ; Book VI ...

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...
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The Poetical Works

Thomas Gray - 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...
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