 | Maria Edgeworth - 1848 - 470 páginas
...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 páginas
...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...rage And froze the genial current of their soul." Is this prosaic ? But I do not hope to convince PELAQIUS against his will. E. YARDLET. Temple. BLESSING... | |
 | 1849 - 814 páginas
...with celestial fire, Hands, that the rod of empire might have sway'd Or wak'd to ecstacy the living lyre. " But knowledge to their eyes her ample page...the spoils of time did ne'er unroll ; Chill penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of their soul." To the sceptical mind all... | |
 | M Joseph Denison - 1849 - 254 páginas
...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 páginas
...with celestial fire, Hands that the rod of empires might have swayed, Or waked to eztacy the living lyre ; But knowledge to their eyes her ample page,...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... | |
 | 1909 - 490 páginas
...many children of whom it might be said : — "Rut 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." The names of three teachers have come down to us from the time of the early settlement... | |
 | Oscar Mandel - 1985 - 332 páginas
...pathetically shrunk in the ghetto or the squalid village: 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. Instead of one Spinoza, the world might have celebrated twenty; the sciences might... | |
 | Johanne Clare - 1987 - 248 páginas
...with celestial fire, Hands, that the rod of empire might have swayed, Or waked to extasy the living lyre. But knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich...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:... | |
 | Martin Gardner - 1992 - 226 páginas
...with celestial fire; Hands, that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre. But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich...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... | |
 | John Guillory - 1993 - 422 páginas
...lines of the Elegy to which Barbauld alludes: But knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll; Chill Penury...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... | |
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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. 
