 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 408 pages
...Ver. 169. Flow, Welsted, flow! ifc.~\ Parody on Denham, Cooper't Hill: " O could I flow like thec, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme: Tho' deep, yet clear ; tho' gentle, yet not dull; Strong without rage; without o'erflowing, full!".... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 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...theme ! Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. The lines, are, in themselves, not perfect... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 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...theme ! Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. The lines are in themselves not perfect;... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...So that to us no thing, no plaee, is strange, While his fair bosom is the world's exehange. O eould e X # 9 P RV y ^y í cӥ* [ DE1 4 l@ 0 V w IR ᰆ n" \ = <JgS V7IY>4 w?L elear, though gentle yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. Heaven her Eridanus... | |
 | Outlines - 1825 - 288 pages
...subject, in an apostrophe to the river Thames. " O ! could I flow like thee, And make thy stream My chief example As it is my theme ; Though deep, yet clear, Though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, Without o'erflowing full." Any approach to such a combined interchange... | |
 | 1826 - 300 pages
...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...theme ! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage ; without o'erflowing, full. Heaven her Eridanus no more shall boast,... | |
 | Benjamin Humphrey Smart - 1826 - 242 pages
...consider that he shall 6ne day be old, and remember, when he is old, that he has once been young. 8. O' could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great...theme, Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong, without rage, without o'erflowing full. 9. Pleasures — are ever in our hands or... | |
 | Horace Wellbeloved - 1826 - 138 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...theme ! Though deep, yet clear; though gentle, yet not dull; Strong, without rage; without o'erflowing, full. Heav'n her Eridanus no more shall boast,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 430 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...my theme! Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yetnotdull; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. The lines are in themselves not perfect... | |
 | George Lewis Smyth - 1826 - 556 pages
...plants. So that to us no thing, no place is strange, While his fair bosom js the world's exchange. 0 could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great...as it is my theme ! Though deep, yet clear ; though gcptle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full." In the year 1647, the predicament... | |
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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. 
