 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.  Pantologia. A new (cabinet) cyclopædia, by J.M. Good, O. Gregory, and N ... - Page 10by John Mason Good - 1819Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 354 pages
...Weljled,flow I &c . ] Parody on Dcnham' Cooper's Hill. O could I flow like thee, and make thy ftream My great example, as it is my theme : Tho' deep, yet clear ; tho' gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage ; without o'erflowing, full. NOTES. VER. 169. Flow, Welfted, £stV .] Of this... | |
 | Theophilus Cibber - Poets, English - 1753 - 406 pages
...book, in that famous Parody upon Denham's Cooper's Hill, O could I flow like thee, and make thy dream My great example, as it is my theme ; Tho* deep, yet clear ; tho' gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage ; without o'er flowing full. Denham. , Which Mr. Pope has thus parodied •,... | |
 | John Holmes - Elocution - 1755 - 204 pages
...iuperas interritus extulit auras, CsiV. Fi'r^-. ^"». /;. See Sir John Denbam on the River Thames — O could I flow like thee, and make thy Stream-^ My...!— Tho' deep, yet clear ; tho' gentle, yet not dull ;• — Strong without Rage; without o'erflowing, full. — See alfo Ifaiah i. 5, 6. fcJV. — N.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1760 - 388 pages
...Wc]fted> flow! tic.] Parody on Denbam, 'Cooper* 'f Hill. " O could I flow like thee, and make thy ftream " My great example, as it is my theme : " Tho' deep, yet clear ; tho' gentle, yet not dull ; . * •' Strong without rage ; without o'erflowing, full !" So fweetly mawkilh, and fo fmoothly dull... | |
 | Luís de Camões - Explorers - 1776 - 674 pages
...to the Thames ; '!•.?••... . . :' • 'I - 'l O could I flow like thee, and make thy ftream* My great example, as it is my theme ; Tho' deep, yet clear, tho' gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. *• . * \ i " Camouens addrefles the Nymphs of Tagus... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1777 - 212 pages
...Weljhd foui ! &c.] Parody on. Denham, Cooler's riilL " O could I flow like thce, and make thy ftream " My great example, as it is my theme : " Tho' deep, yet clear, tho' gentle, yet not dull; " Strong without rage ; without o'erflowing, full I Ver. 177. Embrace, emhrace, my fans? be foes no... | |
 | English poetry - 1781 - 516 pages
...ftrange, While his fair bofom is the world's exchange. O could I flow like thee» and make thy ftream My great example, as it is my theme ! Tho' deep, yet clear; tho' gentle, yet not dull j Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full : Heav'n her Eridanus no more mall boaft, Whofe fame... | |
 | Henry Headley - English poetry - 1787 - 232 pages
...Denham in his popular lines, addrefiing the Thames: O could I flow like thee ! and make thy ftream My great example, as it is my theme ; Tho' deep, yet clear; tho' gentle, yet not dull; Strong, without rage ; without overflowing, full. Cooper's Hill. ,See an excellent parody of thefe... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1787 - 340 pages
...Welfied, few! etc.'} Parody on Dtnham, Caper's Hill : " O could 1 flow like thee, and make thy ftream " My great example, as it is my theme : « Tho' deep, yet clear, tho' gentle, yet not dull; «' Strong without rage ; without o'er.ftWinj> full !" So fweetly mawkifh, and fo fmoothly dull; Heady,... | |
 | Henry Headley - English poetry - 1787 - 212 pages
...lines, addreffing the Thames : O could 1 flow like thee ! ami make thy ftreara My great example, as i: is my theme ; Tho' deep. yet clear; tho' gentle, yet not dull; Stronir, without rage j without overflowing, full. Cooper's Hill. See an excellent parody of thefe... | |
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