 | Goronwy Owen - 1876 - 350 pages
...his ' Elegy written in a Country Churchyard' : — " 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." 1 The termination of the poem breathes the same admirable spirit that we find,... | |
 | John McGovern - 1880 - 762 pages
...T. r 13. But Knowledge to their eves the 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. 14. Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark, unfathomed caves of ocean bear: Full many a flower... | |
 | Edmund Martin Geldart - 1881 - 184 pages
...Doubtless there have been village Hampdens and mute inglorious Miltons of whom the bard well sung — " Chill penury repressed their noble rage And froze the genial current of their soul ; " but neither Shrewsbury's plain nor London town could make a hero of Falstaff, nor a poet of Robert... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1881 - 510 pages
...lyre: Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire; But knowledge to their eyes her ample page, Rich with* the spoils of time, did ne'er unrol: Chill penury repressed their noble rage, 8 And froze the genial current of the soul. Full many a gem 6 of purest ray serene The dark unfathomed... | |
 | Evan Daniel - 1881 - 420 pages
...Gray. d. But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page, Rich with the spoils of time, did ne'er uuroll ; Chill Penury repressed their noble rage And froze the genial current of their soul. — Id. e. England is not now what it was under the Edwards and the Heuries. /. That man is little... | |
 | 1882 - 486 pages
...have 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 unrol ; Chill Penury repressed their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul. MILTON — Paradise Lost, I. ; Lycidas. 6. Explain the following, with special... | |
 | Edward Walford, George W. Redway - 1883 - 360 pages
...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. Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear ; Full many a flower is... | |
 | Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society - 1884 - 150 pages
...page of history, rich with the spoils of time, and I trust that never of you will it be said that " Chill Penury repressed their noble rage, And froze the genial current of their soul." But, beyond even any direct high aims which your Society may have before it, there appears to me one... | |
 | 1883 - 370 pages
...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 Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear ; Full many a flower is... | |
 | Canadian Institute - 1886 - 344 pages
...a philosopher is not born but made. True, nature must do her part, but what would avail the genius of a Newton or of a Lavoisier if — " Knowledge to...and instructors, and here again the question of cost stares^us in the face. Now, science is never self-supporting. The application of science to the arts... | |
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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. 
