 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
 | William Drummond, Peter Cunningham - 1833 - 354 pages
...bears the happier share. Of this Johnson says, the numbers are musical, and the thoughts are just. 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,... | |
 | H. Jervis - Cauvery River (India) - 1834 - 192 pages
...the vallies bring A welcome succour ', with a liberal hand Bestowing plenty to a burning land. " Oh, could I flow like thee, and make thy stream " My great example, as it is my theme !" DENHAM. THE Cavery rises in the mountains which divide the Southern Peninsula of India, and after... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1835 - 382 pages
...Visit thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous.' SHAKESP. 16» Flaw, Welsted, flow! &c.] Parody on Denham, Cooper's Hill: ' O could I flow...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 Carter Hall - English poetry - 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 o'erflowing full.... | |
 | Author of The young man's own book - American poetry - 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 o'efflowing full.... | |
 | Calvin Colton - Great Britain - 1836 - 372 pages
...that what graces London must be a grace. Certainly no one will deny that these lines are a beauty. " 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 Carter Hall - English poetry - 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 full.... | |
 | the christians - 1836 - 426 pages
...ours; So that to us no thing, no place is strange, While his fair bosom 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, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full."... | |
 | Stanhope Busby - English poetry - 1837 - 136 pages
...plants. So that to us no thing, no plai« 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 full.... | |
 | 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 full."... | |
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