 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.  The Atlantic Monthly - Page 551894Full view - About this book
 | John Moore - 1795 - 508 pages
...ftrange, While his fair bofom is the world's exchange. O could I flow like thee, and make thy ftream My great example, as it is my theme ! Though deep,...dull; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. Heaven her Eridanus no more fhall boaft, Whofe fame in thine, like lefler current 's loft. You will... | |
 | Johann Joachim Eschenburg - 1789 - 488 pages
...that to us no thing, no place is ftrange, While his fair Boiom 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, y et clear ; th о gentle, yet not dull; Strong without Rage, without o'erflo ingfulll , Heav'n her... | |
 | John Bell - 1796 - 480 pages
...hideous." Sia!;esp. •ii.' 169. Flaw, l'relited,jiawl &cj Parody on Denham, Cooper's llil! : " O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream " My great example, as it is my theiwe: " 'f ho.' deep, yet clear; tho' gentle, yet not dull ; - 5' Strong without- rage ;- without... | |
 | T. Bowen - 1799 - 76 pages
...ftrange, While his fair bofom is the World's exchange. O could I flow like thee, and make thy ftream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep yet clear ; tho' gentle yet not dull; Strong without rage, without overflowing full. Who that beholds thee, NILE,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pages
...eve writer for a century past has imitated, are generally known: " O could I flow like thee, and mike thy stream " My great example, as it is my theme ! " Though deep, yet clear; though gentle, yet not dull; " Strong without rage, without o'erfloiving full." The lines arc in themselves not perfect... | |
 | John Bell - 1800 - 440 pages
...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 Tho'deep yet clear, tho' gentle yet not dull i • Strong without rage, ni;hout o'erfiov*inc full.... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...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,...theme '. " Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet net dull ; " Strong without rage, without o'crflo*ing full." The lines are in themselves not perfect... | |
 | Charles Brockden Brown - 1806 - 498 pages
...were not in the first printed edition of the poem ; though the general sentiment is there. О could 1 flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example,...dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. Hcav'n her Eridanus no more bhall boast ; Her fame in thine, like lesser currents, lost; Thy nobler... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1806 - 788 pages
...trial of skill, than a violation of the laws of morality. SIR JOHN DENHAM. O could I flow like tliee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my...; Strong without rage ; without o'erflowing, full. Of this famous passage, to which Dry den has nothing equal, and Pope nothing superiour, Dr. Johnson... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 336 pages
...imitated, are generally known : " O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream " My great exampTe, as it is my theme ! " Though deep, yet clear, though..." Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full." The lines are in J hemselves not perfect; for most of the words, thus artfully opposed, are to be unUS... | |
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