 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 Works of Alexander Pope - Page 195by Alexander Pope - 1822Full view - About this book
 | Edward Polehampton - Natural history - 1821 - 462 pages
...VOL. III. D 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, as it is my theme ! Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full.... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - Wonder - 1821 - 788 pages
...thing, no place is strangcr While his fair bosom is the world's exchange. O could 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 ; Strongwithout rage, without o'erflowing full.... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 294 pages
...small pittance for pay. ^vV. Hill: IMITATIONS. Flout, Welsted, Jlow! &c.] Parody on Denham. Cooper's ' 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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 484 pages
...Dryden has 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 ! Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full."... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - Authors, English - 1823 - 652 pages
...Dryden has 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 ! Though deep, yet clear; though gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full."... | |
 | 1828 - 746 pages
...does not recollect the charming lines with which Denham describes the “silver river :“— “Oh! could I flow lik¿e 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'erflowiDg fulL Immediately... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 450 pages
...almost every writer for a century past has imitated, are generally known: " 0 could I flow like thcc, 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."... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 pages
...Dryden has 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 ! Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...So that to us no thing, no plaee, is strange, While his fair bosom is the world's exehange. O eould ates assign. Be thine despair, and seepter'd eare ; To triumph, and to die ; Though deep yet elear, though gentle yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1826 - 430 pages
...Dryden has 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! Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yetnotdull; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full.... | |
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