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. A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art, Literature ... - Side 21redigert av - 1829Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
| Horace Wellbeloved - 1826 - 138 sider
...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...dull; Strong, without rage; without o'erflowing, full. Heav'n her Eridanus no more shall boast, Her fame in thine, like lesser currents, lost"—DENHAM. THE... | |
| Benjamin Humphrey Smart - 1826 - 242 sider
...consider that he shall 6ne day be old, and remember, when he is old, that he has once been young. 8. O' could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great...dull, Strong, without rage, without o'erflowing full. 9. Pleasures — are ever in our hands or eyes, A'nd when in act — they cease, in prospect — rise... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 430 sider
...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...my theme! Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yetnotdull; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. The lines are in themselves not perfect... | |
| George Lewis Smyth - 1826 - 556 sider
...plants. So that to us no thing, no place is strange, While his fair bosom js the world's exchange. 0 could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great...as it is my theme ! Though deep, yet clear ; though gcptle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full." In the year 1647, the predicament... | |
| George Lewis Smyth - 1826 - 1042 sider
...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 dear ; though gentle, yet no< dull ; Strong without rage, without o'crfawing full." In the year 1647,... | |
| 1828 - 724 sider
...does not recollect the charming lines with which Denham describes the " silver river :" — " Oh I could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great..., Strong without rage ; without o'erflowing full. Immediately at your feet is the plain of Runnemede, where the great battle between John and the Barons... | |
| John Timbs - 1829 - 354 sider
...it; but he cheats by constitution, and overreaches by instinct. — Taller. DCCCXIX. (The Thames.) O could I flow like thee! and make thy stream My great...dull; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. No crime so bold, but would be understood A real, or at least a seeming good; Who fears not to do ill,... | |
| Laconics - 1829 - 352 sider
...constitution, and overreaches by instinct.—Taller. DCCCXIX. (The Thames.') O could I flow like thec! am! make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme;...dull; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. No crime so bold, but would be understood A real, or at least a seeming good; Who fears not to do ill,... | |
| Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 548 sider
...; Finds wealth where 'tis, bestows it where it wants, Cities in deserts, woods in cities plants. 0 could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great...theme ! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'erflowingfnll. — Denham. MY soul, time posts away, And thou,... | |
| William Drummond, Peter Cunningham - 1833 - 358 sider
...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...; Strong without rage; without o'erflowing, full.* WALLER TO VANDYKE. Rare Artisan, whose pencil moves Not our delights alone, but loves : From thy shop... | |
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