 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.  The Works of Samuel Johnson - Pàgina 77per Samuel Johnson - 1816Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | William Bernard Cooke - 1811 - 324 pàgines
...place is strange, While his fair bosom is the world's exchange. O could I flow like thee, and make my stream My great example as it is my theme ! Though...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pàgines
...in his " Poem on Claremout ;" Jnxl by Pope, ia hit " Windsor Forest." H. " O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream " My great example, as it is my theme ! " Though deep, yet clear ; though gentlu, yet not dull ; " Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full." The lines are in themselves... | |
 | E. Polehamton - 1815 - 470 pàgines
...thing , nit 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 clear ; though gentle, yet not dull} Strong without rage, without o'erftowing full. • Although it is the current opinion that... | |
 | Edward Polehampton - 1815 - 472 pàgines
...thinf, no place is strangr, While his fair bosom i.- the world's exchange. O conld I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as- it is my theme ! Though deep, yet clear ; thoBgh gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erfiowing full. Although it is the current... | |
 | John Evans - 1817 - 610 pàgines
...perfected it." The four following lines in Cooper's Hill are inimitable : — O! could I flow like ihee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme ; Though deep yet clear, thb' gentle yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full ! " Cooper's Hill (says Dr.... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1817 - 882 pàgines
...Imitation of the celebrated lines in Denham : " O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My bright example as it is my theme ! Though deep yet clear, though gentle never dull, Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full." A Spanish writer commends Manzanares, the... | |
 | Thomas Green - 1818 - 654 pàgines
...if not of all the softness, of the Italian. " Oh ! could I make thy sweetly-flowing stream My bright example, as it is my theme ; Though deep, yet clear...Strong, without rage — -without o'erflowing, full." Such appears to have been the uninterrupted tenor of a life too felicitous perhaps to be permanent... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 822 pàgines
...most attention arc the following in a description of the river Ti limes: -' 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 ; Stronz without rage; without o'erflowinz, full."... | |
 | John Moore - 1820 - 476 pàgines
...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 clear ; though gentle, yet not d«H j Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. Heaven her Bridanus no more shall boast,... | |
 | John Moore, Robert Anderson - 1820 - 470 pàgines
...the world's exchange. 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...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... | |
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