 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
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 476 pages
...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 ' X * By Garth, in his " Poem on Claremont," and by Pope in his " Windsor Forest." Though deep, yet... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 466 pages
...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 ! " Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dull ; " Strong without rage, without o'erflowing... | |
 | John Moore - 1820 - 476 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 d«H j Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full.... | |
 | John Moore, Robert Anderson - English literature - 1820 - 470 pages
...plants, So that, to DS, 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 ray theme ! Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 470 pages
...almos; every writer for a century . past has imitated, are generally known. " O could I flow like hee, and make thy stream " My great example, as it is my theme ! " Though deep, yet cl«ar ; though gentle, yet not dull ; " Strong without rage, without o'erflowing... | |
 | Edward Polehampton - Natural history - 1821 - 462 pages
...VOL. III. D So that to us no thing, no place is strange, While his fair bosom is the world's cxclmnge. 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.... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - Wonder - 1821 - 788 pages
...thing, no place is strangcr While his fair bosom is the world's exchange. O could I flow like thec, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme ! Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dull ; Strongwithout rage, without o'erflowing full.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 390 pages
...Fame of his protectors. IMITATIONS. Ver. 169. Flow, Welsted, flow!] Parody on Denham, Cooper's Hill. " O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great...: Tho' deep, yet clear ; tho' gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage ; without o'erflowing, full !" W. So sweetly mawkish, and so smoothly dull ;... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 294 pages
...small pittance for pay. ^vV. Hill: IMITATIONS. Flout, Welsted, Jlow! &c.] Parody on Denham. Cooper's ' 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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 484 pages
...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 ! Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full."... | |
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