 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
 | Henry Headley - English poetry - 1810 - 238 pages
...thine only curse; Secure then of thy merit, thou didst hate That servile base dependence upon Fate ; 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'erflowing,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 pages
...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; tbo' deep yet clear, tho' gentle yet not dull ; strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. Heav'n... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...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 clear; though gentle, yet not dull; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full.... | |
 | Henry Headley - English poetry - 1810 - 236 pages
...thine onlj curse; Secure then of thy merit, thou didst hate That servile base dependence upon Fate ; O could I flow like thee ! and make thy stream My great examples as it is my theme ; Though deep, yet clear; though gentle, yet not dull ; . Strong, without... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pages
...generally known : * By Garth, 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... | |
 | E. Polehamton - 1815 - 470 pages
...III. I> So that to us no 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.... | |
 | Edward Polehampton - 1815 - 472 pages
...So that to us no 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.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 486 pages
...almost every writer for a century past has imitated, are generally known : " O could 1 flow like thec, 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'erflowing... | |
 | John Evans - 1817 - 610 pages
...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 !... | |
 | Edward Polehampton, John Mason Good - Natural history - 1818 - 492 pages
...as no Iblnp, no place is strange, While his fair bo?om is the world's exchange. O could I flow Ilk'. thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme ! Though deep, yet clear ; thongh gentle, yet not dutl ; Strong without rage, whboit o'erftowing full.... | |
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