 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 pages
...commended them, almost every writer for a century past has imitated, are generally known : O, could m which he was not dismissed without * Consulting the Virjrilian Lots, Sones VirgtUance, is clear; though gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing fnlL The lines are in... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 602 pages
...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." There cannot be... | |
 | Joseph Taylor - Adventure and adventurers - 1838 - 672 pages
...thing, no place is strange, While his fair bosom is the world's exchange. O! conld 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; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. The source of the... | |
 | William Henry Merle - 1838 - 1034 pages
...less guilty wealth t' explore, Search not his bottom, but surrey his shore. O could I flow like tliee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme ! Tho' Jeep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dull ; Strong, without rage ; without o'erflowing,... | |
 | Thomas Faulkner - Hammersmith (England) - 1839 - 482 pages
...calls it " The King of the Floods,"and Denham characterises it in that celebrated passage, 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." FISHERY. —... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...Secret Committee, &c. In 1742. 3 Parody on Dcnham, Cooper's Л ill : 0 could Ißüte like thee, ana clear ; though gentle, yet not dull ¡ Strong without rage ; without o'er/towing, /all. * The reader,... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1840 - 566 pages
...steer, 298 The Worth oj Beauty. PASSAIC: A BROUP OF POEMS TORCHING THAT RIYER. RY FL ACCUS. •OH could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it u my theme ; Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong wituoul roge, without o'erflowing,... | |
 | American periodicals - 1840 - 560 pages
...Retreat of Seventy-Six. 3S5 PASSAIC: A GROUP OF POEMS TOUCHING THAT RIVER. BY FLAC C 09. ' OH 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.1 DENMAN. TALE FOURTH.... | |
 | New York (N.Y.) - 1840 - 818 pages
...Speaking of the four sonorous and oft-praisec lines, also addressed to ' Father Thames,' 1 0 could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as ft is my theme ! Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dull : Strong without raf e ; without... | |
 | William Finden, Edward Francis Finden, William Beattie, William Henry Bartlett - Coasts - 1842 - 338 pages
...maid on her native coast Is the Lass of Lytham Hall." ¿c. ate. LONDON. (FROM bouxHWARK.) " О could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example as it is my theme; Though deep, yet buoyant, — gentle, yet not dull, — Strong, without rage, — without o'erflowing, full." DEKHAM.... | |
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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. 
