| Robert Hartley Cromek - 1810 - عدد الصفحات: 260
...above-mentioned beautiful little Poem, and one cannot help regretting that such abilities were only born to " blush unseen, and waste their sweetness on the desert air ;" for in truth his humble abode was little better than a desert, though not inhabited by savages ;... | |
| Timothy Dwight - 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 546
...ready, as I believe all my companions were, when we left the spot, to believe that some " Flowers arc born to blush unseen, And waste their sweetness on the desert air." A small church stands near this inn in the midst of a hamlet, consisting of ten or a dozen houses.... | |
| Timothy Dwight - 1823 - عدد الصفحات: 554
...ready, as I believe all my companions were, when we left the spot, to believe, that some " Flowers are born to blush unseen And waste their sweetness on the desert air." A small church stands near this inn, in the midst of a hamlet consisting of ten or a dozen houses.... | |
| J. Coad - 1826 - عدد الصفحات: 264
...ones made sad havor. plucking here and there, and proving that those flowers, at least, were " Not born to blush unseen, And waste their sweetness on the desert air." But, with a capriciousness of enjoyment, not more peculiar to them than to " children of a larger growth,"... | |
| John S. Skinner - 1827 - عدد الصفحات: 434
...this annual meeting at a fair, of farmers' sons and daugh ters? There aie too many beautiful flowers "Born to blush unseen, And waste their sweetness on the desert air." Premiums of pieces of silver pbte will be award ed at the Cattle Show at Baltimore, on Tuesdav and... | |
| Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1832 - عدد الصفحات: 100
...the rich and varied beauties, which adorn the endless flowers, which, as the poet . says, 63 • Are born to blush unseen, And waste their sweetness on the desert air. " Our Savior beautifully alludes to the care which God exercises over the vegetable creation. They... | |
| John Fitzgerald Pennie - 1839 - عدد الصفحات: 486
...proportion to what his Historical Dramas merit, he will not ba associated with those flowers that -are born to blush unseen, And waste their sweetness on the desert air. Whoever is acquainted with the periods of history in which these Dramas are laid, will want no information... | |
| 1841 - عدد الصفحات: 598
...have adorncd it, and some may bloom amid its fragrant blossoms that ought, perchance, to have been " Born to blush unseen, And waste their sweetness on the desert air." The publishers have, however, donc their duty, and hav,e given us, perhaps, the best selection that could,... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1841 - عدد الصفحات: 324
...effect upon a bonnet or a flounce ; while natural flowers, even according to the poet, are often " born to blush unseen, And waste their sweetness on the desert air." No, no ; flowers are nothing in themselves ; but they are turned to good account by art. Thus a flower... | |
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