 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 Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1817 - 882 pages
...Imitation of the celebrated lines in Denham : " O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My bright example as it is my theme ! Though deep yet clear, though gentle never dull, Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full." A Spanish writer commends Manzanares, the... | |
 | Thomas Green - 1818 - 654 pages
...if not of all the softness, of the Italian. " Oh ! could I make thy sweetly-flowing stream My bright example, as it is my theme ; Though deep, yet clear...Strong, without rage — -without o'erflowing, full." Such appears to have been the uninterrupted tenor of a life too felicitous perhaps to be permanent... | |
 | Edward Polehampton, John Mason Good - 1818 - 492 pages
...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. Although it is the current... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 822 pages
...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 - 466 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,..." Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full." The lines are in themselves not perfect ; for most of the words, thus artfully opposed, are to be understood... | |
 | John Moore - 1820 - 476 pages
...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,...theme ! Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not d«H j Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. Heaven her Bridanus no more shall boast,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 476 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 ' X * By Garth, in his " Poem on Claremont," and by Pope in his " Windsor Forest." Though deep, yet... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 470 pages
...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 full." The lines... | |
 | John Moore, Robert Anderson - 1820 - 470 pages
...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... | |
 | Edward Polehampton - 1821 - 462 pages
...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,...dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. Although it is the current opinion that the Thames had its name from the conjunction of the Tharae... | |
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