 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 páginas
...Dryden has commended them, almost every writer for a century past has imitated, are generally known : O, t, from which he was not dismissed without * Consulting the Virjril is my theme ! Though deep, yet clear; though gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 602 páginas
...Hill,' has been admired and imitated, as full, flowing, and sonorous. Speaking of the river Thames: " 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 618 páginas
...Hill,' has been admired and imitated, as full, flowing, and sonorous. Speaking of the river Thames : " 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... | |
 | Stanhope Busby - 1837 - 132 páginas
...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... | |
 | Thomas Faulkner - 1839 - 486 páginas
...river. Rowe calls it " The King of the Floods,"and Denham characterises it in that celebrated passage, 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... | |
 | 1840 - 818 páginas
...conceit. Speaking of the four sonorous and oft-praisec lines, also addressed to ' Father Thames,' 1 0 could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as ft is my theme ! Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dull : Strong without raf e ; without... | |
 | 1840 - 566 páginas
...last. The Retreat of Seventy- Six. 335 PASSAIC: A 6ROUP OF POEMS TOUCHING THAT RIVER. BY FLACCC9. ' On could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, aa it is my theme ; Though deep, yet d«ar, though gentle, yet not dull, Stroug without rage, without... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1841 - 844 páginas
...plants. So that to us no thing, no place, is strange, While his fair bosom is the world's Exchange. 0, could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme ! [* Originally: And though his clearer sand no golden veins Like Tagus or Pactolus stream... | |
 | William Finden, Edward Francis Finden, William Beattie, William Henry Bartlett - 1842 - 338 páginas
...fairest maid on her native coast Is the Lass of Lytham Hall." ¿c. ate. LONDON. (FROM bouxHWARK.) " О could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example as it is my theme; Though deep, yet buoyant, — gentle, yet not dull, — Strong, without rage, — without... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 páginas
...plants ; So that to us no thing, no place, is strange, While his fair bosom is the world's exchange. Oh 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... | |
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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. 
