 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 878 pàgines
...; a short essay. When a soldier was the theme, my name Was cot far off. Shakspeare. Cymbeline. О ! could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great...as it is my theme: Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. Denham. Forcing the empty wits... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 352 pàgines
...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; Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. No crime so bold, but would be... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 842 pàgines
...at'an anchor in any «reuní of weather. Raleigh. The herald's mantle is «reamed with gold. Bacon. О could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as thou art шу theme! Tho' deep yet clear, tho' gentle yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'erflowing... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 548 pàgines
...; 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...as it is my theme ! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'erflowingfnll. — Denham. MY soul, time posts... | |
 | William Drummond, Peter Cunningham - 1833 - 354 pàgines
...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...as it is my theme ! Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage; without o'erflowing, full.* WALLER TO VANDYKE. Rare Artisan,... | |
 | William Drummond, Peter Cunningham - 1833 - 358 pàgines
...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...as it is my theme ! Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage; without o'erflowing, full.* WALLER TO VANDYKE. Rare Artisan,... | |
 | H. Jervis - 1834 - 192 pàgines
...the vallies bring A welcome succour ', with a liberal hand Bestowing plenty to a burning land. " Oh, could I flow like thee, and make thy stream " My great example, as it is my theme !" DENHAM. THE Cavery rises in the mountains which divide the Southern Peninsula of India, and after... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 382 pàgines
...moon, Making night hideous.' SHAKESP. 16» Flaw, Welsted, flow! &c.] Parody on Denham, Cooper's Hill: ' O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great...as it is my theme ; Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dull : Strong without rage ; without o'erflowing full !' Embrace, embrace, my sons... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1835 - 476 pàgines
...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 example, as it is my theme I Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dull ; Strong, without rage ; without o'erflowing,... | |
 | John Davies - 1835 - 402 pàgines
...reference to various functions I might be called to discharge — ' O that I flowed like thee and made 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. ' About half way between Tours... | |
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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. 
