 | John Guillory - 1993 - 422 pages
...alludes: 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. (49-52) Of these lines one must observe the absence of a specific referent; one must notice the fact... | |
 | John Brewer, Susan Staves - 1996 - 646 pages
...different: But knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll; llhill Penury repressed their noble rage, And froze the genial current of their souL 1"Elegy," IL 49-52) Barhauld's opening of the "secret springs," her unfreezing of Gray's "genial current,"... | |
 | Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society - 1884 - 148 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... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - 1853 - 520 pages
...have sway'd, Or wak'd 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." THE BARD. ** Girt with many a baron bold Sublime their starry fronts they rear... | |
 | 1883 - 358 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... | |
 | 1910 - 960 pages
...the development of the best that is in them intellectually is retarded. As Gray in his Elegy says: "Chill penury repressed their noble rage and froze the genial current of their souls." There is only one way through which these conditions can be remedied, and that is by educating... | |
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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. 
