 | Joseph Payne - 1856 - 518 pages
...swayed, Or waked to eestasy the living lyre : But knowledge to their eyes her ample page, Rich with'1 the spoils of time, did ne'er unrol : Chill penury repressed their noble rage,5 And froze the genial current of the soul. Full many a gem6 of purest ray serene The dark unfathomed... | |
 | Edward Thomas Stevens - 1863 - 234 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 unrol ; Chill penury repressed their noble rage, AJK! froze the genial current of the soul ! Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathomed... | |
 | James Currie (A.M.) - 1866 - 204 pages
...living lyre. But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page, Eich with the spoils of time, did ne'er unroll; Chill penury repressed their noble rage, And froze the genial current of their souL Pull many a gem, of purest ray serene, The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear ; Full many a flower... | |
 | James Currie (A.M.) - 1867 - 156 pages
...HILTON. 3. 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. — GBAY. 4. Small service is true service while it lasts ; Of friends, however humble, scorn not one... | |
 | 1872 - 602 pages
...— " 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." Is this prosaic ! But I do not hope to convince PELAGIUS against his will. E. YARDLET. Temple. BLESSING... | |
 | 1872 - 592 pages
...— " 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." Is this prosaic ! But I do not hope to convince PELAGIUS against his will. E. YARDLEY. Temple. BLESSING... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1873 - 268 pages
...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 their noble rage. They... | |
 | Jakob Olaus Løkke - 1875 - 556 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 unrol : •Chill...penury repressed their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul. Some village Hampden, that, with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1875 - 56 pages
...хш. But knowledge to their eyes lier ample page, Rich with the spoils of time, did ne'er unfold ; Chill penury repressed their noble rage, And froze the genial current of their soul. XIII. Quam Doctrina suis dives patefecit ulumni» Illorum visu pagina clausa fuit : — Noliilis ardores... | |
 | Goronwy Owen - 1876 - 332 pages
...his ' Elegy written in a Country Churchyard' : — " But knowledge to their eyes her ample page, Eich with the spoils of time, did ne'er unrol; Chill penury repressed their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the sonl." 1 The termination of the poem breathes the same admirable spirit that we find,... | |
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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 their soul. 
