 | 1880 - 316 páginas
...industry of the insect microcosm as slowly brought about through ages of time That celebrated couplet in Gray's Elegy written in a Country Churchyard : " Full many a flower is born to bluih unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air," was the product of the knowledge of the i8th... | |
 | Lester Frank Ward - 1913 - 506 páginas
...industry of the insect microcosm as slowly brought about through ages of time. That celebrated couplet in Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard: " Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air, " was the product of the knowledge of the... | |
 | William Harmon - 1998 - 386 páginas
...alone. It is also worth noting that Waller's image of the rose blooming unseen in the desert returns in Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard": "Full many a flower is born to blush unseen / And waste its sweetness on the desert air." FORM: Five-line stanza (dimeter, tetrameter,... | |
 | Anne Buttimer, L. Wallin - 1999 - 380 páginas
...two of the most famous lines in English poetry, ones 1 leamed by heart in grammar school. They are from Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard: "Full many a flower is bom to blush unseen, / And waste its sweetness on the desert air." Both the flower and the human being... | |
 | Terry Teachout - 2002 - 212 páginas
...frustrated, others deeply content. Harry Jenks was content. He made me think of a line from Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard": "Full many a flower is born to blush unseen/And waste its sweetness on the desert air." But Harry knew better than that. He knew that... | |
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Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard: " Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air, " was the product of the knowledge of the :8th century and is no longer true. 