 O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.  Bell's Edition - Sivu 191tekijä(t) John Bell - 1800Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | John Evans - 1817 - 610 sivua
...perfected it." The four following lines in Cooper's Hill are inimitable : — O! could I flow like ihee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme ; Though deep yet clear, thb' gentle yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full !... | |
 | Edward Polehampton, John Mason Good - 1818 - 492 sivua
...as no Iblnp, no place is strange, While his fair bo?om is the world's exchange. O could I flow Ilk'. thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme ! Though deep, yet clear ; thongh gentle, yet not dutl ; Strong without rage, whboit o'erftowing full.... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 822 sivua
...which have excited the most attention arc the following in a description of the river Ti limes: -' O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example — as it is my theme! Tho' deep, yet clear; tho' gentle, yet not dull ; Stronz without rage; without o'erflowinz, full."... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 476 sivua
...enumeration of smaller poets, that have left scarcely a corner of the island not dignified either by rhyme, or blank verse. " Cooper's Hill," if it be maliciously...make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme ' X * By Garth, in his " Poem on Claremont," and by Pope in his " Windsor Forest." Though deep, yet... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 466 sivua
...sentiments sometimes such as will not bear a '•>' rigorous enquiry. The four verses, which, since Dry den has commended them, almost every writer for a century...make thy stream " My great example, as it is my theme ! " Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dull ; " Strong without rage, without o'erflowing... | |
 | John Moore - 1820 - 476 sivua
...plants, So that, to us, no thing, no place is strange, . . While his fair bosom is the world's exchange. O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream, My great example, as it is my theme ! Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not d«H j Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full.... | |
 | John Moore, Robert Anderson - 1820 - 470 sivua
...plants, So that, to DS, no thing, no place is strange, While his fair bosom is the world's exchange. O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream, My great example, as it is ray theme ! Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 470 sivua
...almos; every writer for a century . past has imitated, are generally known. " O could I flow like hee, and make thy stream " My great example, as it is my theme ! " Though deep, yet cl«ar ; though gentle, yet not dull ; " Strong without rage, without o'erflowing... | |
 | Edward Polehampton - 1821 - 462 sivua
...VOL. III. D So that to us no thing, no place is strange, While his fair bosom is the world's cxclmnge. O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme ! Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full.... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1821 - 788 sivua
...thing, no place is strangcr While his fair bosom is the world's exchange. O could I flow like thec, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme ! Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dull ; Strongwithout rage, without o'erflowing full.... | |
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