Gem. Grocott's Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?

Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

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In wall and roof and pavement scattered are Full many a pearl, full many a costly stone. Ariosto.—Orlando Furioso, Canto XXXIII. Stanza 105.	1
Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom’d caves of Ocean bear: Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Gray.—Elegy, Verse 14.	2
As in the hollow breast of Apennine, Beneath the shelter of encircling hills, A myrtle rises far from human eye, And breathes its balmy fragrance o’er the wild. Thomson.—Autumn, Line 210.	3
Like yon neglected shrub, at random cast, That shades the steep, and sighs at every blast. Goldsmith.—The Traveller, Line 163.	4
There kept my charms conceal’d from mortal eye, Like roses that in deserts bloom and die. Pope.—Rape of the Lock, Canto IV. Line 158.	5
Like the desert’s lily, bloom’d to fade. Shenstone.—Elegy IV.	6
In distant wilds, by human eyes unseen, She rears her flowers and spreads her velvet green; Pure gurgling rills the lonely desert trace, And waste their music on the savage race. Dr. Young.—Satire V. Line 229.	7