 | William Drummond, Peter Cunningham - 1833 - 354 sivua
...bears the happier share. Of this Johnson says, the numbers are musical, and the thoughts are just. 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.* WALLER TO VANDYKE.... | |
 | William Drummond, Peter Cunningham - 1833 - 358 sivua
...bears the happier share. Of this Johnson says, the numbers are musical, and the thoughts are just. 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.* WALLER TO VANDYKE.... | |
 | H. Jervis - 1834 - 192 sivua
...the vallies bring A welcome succour ', with a liberal hand Bestowing plenty to a burning land. " Oh, could I flow like thee, and make thy stream " My great example, as it is my theme !" DENHAM. THE Cavery rises in the mountains which divide the Southern Peninsula of India, and after... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 382 sivua
...Making night hideous.' SHAKESP. 16» Flaw, Welsted, flow! &c.] Parody on Denham, Cooper's Hill: ' 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 !' Embrace, embrace,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1835 - 476 sivua
...Dryden has commended them, almost every writer for a century past has imitated, are generally known : O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme I Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dull ; Strong, without rage ; without o'erflowing,... | |
 | John Davies - 1835 - 402 sivua
...reference to various functions I might be called to discharge — ' O that I flowed like thee and made 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. ' About half... | |
 | the christians - 1836 - 426 sivua
...ours; So that to us no thing, no place is strange, While his fair bosom is the world's exchange. О 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." 170 THE CHRISTIAN'S... | |
 | Author of The young man's own book - 1836 - 336 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 dull ; Strong without rage, without o'efflowing full. Heav'n her Eridanus... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1836 - 336 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 dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. Heav'n her Eridanus... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1836 - 390 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 dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. Heav'n her Eridanus... | |
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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. 
