 | John Moore, Robert Anderson - English literature - 1820 - 470 pages
...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 full. Heaven her Eridanus no more shall boast, Whose fame in thine, like lesser current, 'a last. You will... | |
 | John Corry - London (England) - 1820 - 332 pages
...which, as the tide was then on the ebb, did not correspond with Denham's description, " Though deep yet clear, though gentle yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full." For it was then comparatively shallow, and its stream tinged with mud, and the various discolorations... | |
 | Joseph Spence - Authors, English - 1820 - 322 pages
...the Thames owes a great part of its fineness to the frequency and variety of the pauses: Though deep, yet clear; though gentle, yet not dull; Strong, without rage; without o'erflowing, full. Mr. Auditor Benson. There is none of our poets of that class [the class of Dorset and Rochester] that... | |
 | Joseph Spence - Authors, English - 1820 - 318 pages
...the Thames owes a great part of its fineness to the frequency and variety of the pauses: Though deep, yet clear; though gentle, yet not dull; Strong, without rage; without o'erflowing, full. Mr. Auditor Benson* There is none of our poets of that class [the class of Dorset and Rochester] that... | |
 | Richard Watson - Methodist Church - 1821 - 264 pages
...lately observed, with respect to Mr. Wesley's preaching, that it always reminded him of the lines of Denham, " Though deep, yet clear; though gentle, yet...dull; Strong without rage; without o'erflowing full." It is to be feared that Mr. Southey, in reality, takes exceptions to the doctrine taught by Mr. Wesley,... | |
 | Edward Polehampton - Natural history - 1821 - 462 pages
...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. Although it is the current opinion that the Thames had its name from the conjunction of the Tharae... | |
 | Great Britain - 1822 - 392 pages
...I flow like thee, and make my stream My great example as it is my theme ! INTRODUCTION. Though deep yet clear ; though gentle yet not dull ' Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full ; Heav'n her Eridanus no more shall boast, Whose fame's in this, like lesser currents lost. Staines... | |
 | 1842 - 622 pages
...draw it from the stream whose slight rippling, by the same great law, whispers to us, " Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage ; without o'erflowing, full." Another river may furnish us with more picturesque scenery, but only the Thames at Windsor can associate... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 290 pages
...' Q could 1 flow like tbee, and make tby 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!" 177 Embrace, embrace, my sons! be foes no more.'] VlRG. Mn. VI. ' Ne tanta animis assnescite bella,... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 328 pages
...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 fall. The lines are in themselves not perfect; for most of the words, thus artfully opposed, are to... | |
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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. 
