 | Calvin Colton - 1836 - 372 sivua
...what graces London must be a grace. Certainly no one will deny that these lines are a beauty. " 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." The Thames,... | |
 | Stanhope Busby - 1837 - 132 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. 77 pointed doggrel... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 602 sivua
...Hill,' has been admired and imitated, as full, flowing, and sonorous. Speaking of the river Thames: " 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." There cannot be... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 618 sivua
...Hill,' has been admired and imitated, as full, flowing, and sonorous. Speaking of the river Thames : " 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." There cannot be... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 sivua
...sentiments sometimes such as will not bear a rigorous inquiry. The four verses, which, since Dryden ; ` ? 6g¢ ] ծ) e #w ڦ }Ƭ7 G& ݬ k ?op 6=][ Ǔ' b h eZ ߏ #3 ] : O, could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme ! Though deep,... | |
 | Joseph Taylor - 1838 - 672 sivua
...thing, no place is strange, While his fair bosom is the world's exchange. O! conld 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; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. The source of the... | |
 | William Henry Merle - 1838 - 1034 sivua
...less guilty wealth t' explore, Search not his bottom, but surrey his shore. O could I flow like tliee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme ! Tho' Jeep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dull ; Strong, without rage ; without o'erflowing,... | |
 | Thomas Faulkner - 1839 - 486 sivua
...river. Rowe calls it " The King of the Floods,"and Denham characterises it in that celebrated passage, 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." FISHERY. —... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 sivua
...Secret Committee, &c. In 1742. 3 Parody on Dcnham, Cooper's Л ill : 0 could Ißüte like thee, ana clear ; though gentle, yet not dull ¡ Strong without rage ; without o'er/towing, /all. * The reader,... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - 1840 - 566 sivua
...Gilde'en.the darkest clouds of deep despair. PASSAIC: A OKOUP OF P 0 EMS TOUCHING THAT RIVER. RY FLACCUI. 'Ou could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, H* it is my theme; Thongh deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Slrong without rage, without... | |
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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. 
