 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1836 - 390 pages
...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... | |
 | Author of The young man's own book - 1836 - 336 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 pages
...Dryden has commended them, almost every writer for a century past has imitated, are generally known : O, t, from which he was not dismissed without * Consulting the Virj it is my theme ! Though deep, yet clear; though gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without... | |
 | Stanhope Busby - 1837 - 132 pages
...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 602 pages
...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 618 pages
...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... | |
 | Thomas Faulkner - 1839 - 486 pages
...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... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - 1840 - 566 pages
...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... | |
 | 1840 - 818 pages
...conceit. Speaking of the four sonorous and oft-praisec lines, also addressed to ' Father Thames,' 1 0 could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as ft is my theme ! Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dull : Strong without raf e ; without... | |
 | 1840 - 566 pages
...last. The Retreat of Seventy- Six. 335 PASSAIC: A 6ROUP OF POEMS TOUCHING THAT RIVER. BY FLACCC9. ' On could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, aa it is my theme ; Though deep, yet d«ar, though gentle, yet not dull, Stroug 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'erflowing full. 
