 | 1806 - 408 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 ! Tho' deep, yet clear; tho' gentle, yet not dull ; Strong, without rage, without o'erflowing, full.... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1806 - 788 sider
...trial of skill, than a violation of the laws of morality. SIR JOHN DENHAM. О could I flow like Лес, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme ! Though deep, yet clear ; though gentie, yet not dull ¡ Strong without rage ; without o'erflowing, full. Of this famous passage, to... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1806 - 796 sider
...morality. SIR JOHN DENHAM. О could I flow like tbee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is iny theme ! Thoug-h deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet...Strong -without rage ; without o'erflowing, full. Of this famous passage, to which Dryden has nothing equal, and Pope nothing supérieur, Dr. Johnson... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 336 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 exampTe, as it is my theme ! " Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull; " Strong without... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1807 - 446 sider
...plants. 186 So that to us no thing, no place is strange, While his fair hosom is the world's exchange. O could I flow like thee ! and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme; 190 Tho' deep yet clear, tlio' gentle yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 sider
...moon, Making night hideous." Shaks. t Flow, Welsted, flow I &c.l Parody on Denham,i Cooper's Hill ; « O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme; Thongh deep, yet clear ; thongh gentle, yet not dull: Strong without rage; without overflowing full... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 388 sider
...Flow. Welsted, flow! &c.] Parody on Denham Cooper s Hill : ' O could I flow like thee, and make tby stream My great example, as it is my theme: Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dull : Strung without rage; without o'ei flowing full :• 177 Embrace, emheace, my sons! he foes... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 512 sider
...So that to us no thing, no place is strange, While his fair bosom is the world's exchange. O could 1 flow like thee ; and make thy stream My great example,...theme; Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erfiowiog full; Heaven her Eridanus no more shall boast,... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - 308 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 ! Tho' deep, yet clear; tho' gentle, yet not dull; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full; Heav'n... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 sider
...thing, no place is strange, While his fair bosom is the world's exchange. 0 rould 1 flow like thre, | G u n ! Iho' deep, yet clear; tho' gentle, yet not dull : Strong without rage, without o'erflowcing full.... | |
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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. 
