 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 476 pages
...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... | |
 | Edward Polehampton - 1821 - 462 pages
...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...dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. Although it is the current opinion that the Thames had its name from the conjunction of the Tharae... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1821 - 768 pages
...thing, no place is strange, While his fair bosom is the world's exchange. O could I flow like thce, and make thy stream . « -My great example, as it...dull; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. DENHAM. THIS fine river, if considered respectively to its course tiul navigation, is not to be equalled... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1821 - 788 pages
...oui • ; So that to us no 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...theme ! Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dull ; Strongwithout rage, without o'erflowing full. DEMI AM. THIS fine river, if considered respectively... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 294 pages
...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...Strong without rage ; without o'erflowing, full!* 177 Embrace, embrace, my sons! be foes no more.'] VIRG. j£n. VI. , ' Ne tanta animis assneseite bella,... | |
 | 1822 - 290 pages
...Flow, Welsted, flow! &c."j Parody on Denham. Cooper's Hill: ' Q could 1 flow like tbee, and make tby stream My great example, as it is my theme : Though...dull: Strong without rage; without o'erflowing, full!" 177 Embrace, embrace, my sons! be foes no more.'] VlRG. Mn. VI. ' Ne tanta animis assnescite bella,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 328 pages
...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 p'erflowing full; Heaven her Eridanus no more shall boast, Whose... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 390 pages
...IMITATIONS. Ver. 169. Flow, Welsted, flow!] Parody on Denham, Cooper's Hill. " O could I flow like thee, 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 - 1823 - 484 pages
...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...; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full." The lines are in themselves not perfect ; for most of the words, thus artfully opposed, are to be understood... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 652 pages
...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...; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full." The lines are in themselves not perfect; for most of the words, thus artfully opposed, are to be understood... | |
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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. 
