 | Sir John Denham - English drama - 1709 - 354 pages
...thing, no place is ftrange, While his fair Bofom is the World'* Exchange. O could I flow like thec, and make thy Stream My great Example, as it is my Theme ! y / Tho' deep, yet clear, tho' gentle, yet not dull ! Strong without rage, without o'cr-flowing full.... | |
 | John Dryden - Classical poetry - 1716 - 412 pages
...planrs. So that to us no thing, no place is ftrange, While his fair Bofom is the Wotld's Exchange. O could I flow like thee, and make thy Stream My Great Example, as it is my Theam ! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet nor dull, Strong without B.age, without o'er- flowing... | |
 | Charles Gildon - Criticism - 1718 - 490 pages
...Shores, Vifit» the World, and in his flying Tow'rs, Brings home to us, and makes both Indies our?. O could I flow like thee, and make thy Stream My great Example, as it is my Theam ! Tho' deep, yet clear ; tho' gentle, yet not dull ; Strong, without Rage ; without o'erflowing,... | |
 | Sir John Denham - 1719 - 258 pages
...planrs. So that to us no thing, no place is ftrange, While his fair Bofom is the World's Exchange. O could I flow like thee, and make thy Stream My great Example, as it is my Tlieme! Tho' deep t yet clear ; tho' gentle, yet not dull ' Strong without Rage, without o'er-flowing... | |
 | Giles Jacob - Dramatists, English - 1723 - 414 pages
...the World, and, in his flying Towers, , \ Brings Home to us, and makes both Indies ours. , O could 1 flow like thee, and make thy Stream My great Example, as it is my "theme ! Tw deep, yet clear \ tho1 gentle, yet nor dull ; Strong, without Rage, without Overflowing, full;... | |
 | Ellis (Firm) - 1728 - 864 pages
...remembered by his lines on the River Thames in " Cooper's Hill " (the first poem in this volume) : — " 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."... | |
 | Voltaire - Epic poetry - 1728 - 144 pages
...furpaffing them. • Sir John Denkam, in his Poem on Coo~ pers-Hill, fays to the Thames • 0 could 1 flow like thee, and make thy Stream • My great Example, as it is my Theme ; . TJM' deep, yet clear ; t ho' gentle, yet not dull ; Strong "without Rage, -without o'erflowing... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1729 - 262 pages
...Vfd&e&, ftow.! &c.] Parody on Denham, Cooper's Hill. O could I ftow like thee, and make thy ftream My great example, as it is my theme. Tho" deep, yet...; tho' gentle, yet not dull; Strong, without rage ; without overftowing, full. ' V. 1 7 1 . Embrace, embrace my Sons ! be foes no more.'] Virg. Mn. 6.... | |
 | John Holmes - Oratory - 1739 - 202 pages
...ad fuperas interritus extulit auras, &c . Virg. Mn. 5. See Sir John Detfbam on the River Thames — O could I flow like thee, and make thy Stream —...Example, as it is my Theme ! — Tho' deep, yet clear j tho' gentle, yet not dull ; — Strong without Rage ; without o'erflowing, full — See alfo Ifaiah... | |
 | Joseph Grove - Cardinals - 1742 - 494 pages
...plants : So that to us no Thing, no Place is Jlrange, While his fair Ecfom is the World's Exchange. O could I flow like thee, and make thy Stream My great...clear, tho' gentle, yet not dull, Strong without Rage, without o' er-flowing full, The Mvirquefs of Dorfet was one, among other blemen, that retired into... | |
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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. 
