 | English poetry, William Fordyce Mavor - 1823 - 502 pages
...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. Heav'n her Eridanus no more shall boast, Whose fame in thine, like lesser current, 'a lost : Thy nobler... | |
 | American fiction - 1824 - 246 pages
...be described in the beautiful lines of the now neglected Denham : they were, indeed, " Though deep, yet clear — though gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage — without o'erflowing, full ;" and seemed to come from the inmost soul of one fully sensible that he was in the immediate presence... | |
 | 1824
..." O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example as it is my theme I , Though deep, yet clear; though gentle yet not dull; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing, full." Here the bard shews, even in the expression of his desire, that its object is obtained, and one far... | |
 | Sholto Percy, Reuben Percy - London (England) - 1824 - 380 pages
...commerce which is carried on in the Port of London. It is as Denham has well described it, " Tho' deep yet clear; though gentle yet not dull; Strong without rage ; without o'erflowing, full." This " King of Floods" rises from a small spring now called Thames-head, near the little village of... | |
 | Charles M. Ingersoll - English language - 1824 - 296 pages
...other, er with tome marked variety, they require to he distinguished by a comma, as : " Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull ; " Strong, without rage ; without o'erflowing, full." " Good men, in this frail, imperfect state, are often found, not only in union with, but in opposition... | |
 | Terence - 1824 - 552 pages
...brevium et sedes ostenduntur. Quanquam in nostris est et varietati locus, ut in his : Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. Ictus in hoc posteriore, qui in secunda syllaba fieri solet, in prima fit ; et venuste quidem ; modo... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 pages
...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 lines are in themselves not perfect; for most of the words, thus artfully opposed, are to be understood... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - Readers - 1825 - 316 pages
...make them right: if founded in truth, no censured from nthers can make them wrong." " Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dull-; " Strong without rage; without o'erflowing, full." " The wise 'man is happy, when he gains his own approbation ; the/oo/, when he gains that of nthers." K A... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 504 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 full. The lines, are, in themselves, not perfect; for most of the words, thus artfully opposed, are to be understood... | |
 | Books - 1825 - 468 pages
...the subject swells, the interest grows, His eloquence with greater volume flows, t'. " Though deep, yet clear, though gentle yet not dull, . ' Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full," •, Sweeping before him, with resistless force, All that obstructs his proud triumphant course. '... | |
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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. 
