 | William Drummond, Peter Cunningham - 1833 - 354 pages
...Of this Johnson says, the numbers are musical, and the thoughts are just. O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my...; Strong without rage; without o'erflowing, full.* WALLER TO VANDYKE. Rare Artisan, whose pencil moves Not our delights alone, but loves : From thy shop... | |
 | William Drummond, Peter Cunningham - 1833 - 354 pages
...Of this Johnson says, the numbers are musical, and the thoughts are just. 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'erflowiug, full.* WALLER TO VANDYKE. Rare Artisan, whose... | |
 | H. Jervis - 1834 - 192 pages
...welcome succour ', with a liberal hand Bestowing plenty to a burning land. " Oh, could I flow like thee, and make thy stream " My great example, as it is my theme !" DENHAM. THE Cavery rises in the mountains which divide the Southern Peninsula of India, and after... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 382 pages
...SHAKESP. 16» Flaw, Welsted, flow! &c.] Parody on Denham, Cooper's Hill: ' 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 !' Embrace, embrace, my sons ! be foes no more ! «* Nor glad vile poets with true critics' gore. '... | |
 | John Davies - 1835 - 402 pages
...reference to various functions I might be called to discharge — ' O that I flowed like thee and made thy stream My great example, as it is my theme : Though...; Strong without rage ; without o'erflowing, full. ' About half way between Tours and Angers is the town of Saumur, celebrated for its cavalry school.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1835 - 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 I Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dull ; Strong, without rage ; without o'erflowing,... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1836 - 390 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...dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. Heav'n her Eridanus no more shall boast, Whose fame in thine, like lesser current, 's lost : Thy nobler... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1836 - 336 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...dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. Heav'n her Eridanus no more shall boast, Whose fame in thine, like lesser current, 's lost : Thy nobler... | |
 | Calvin Colton - 1836 - 372 pages
...be a grace. Certainly no one will deny that these lines are a beauty. " 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 Thames, in passing through London, divides it, not into so nearly equal parts as the Seine does... | |
 | the christians - 1836 - 426 pages
...thing, no place is strange, While his fair bosom is the world's exchange. О could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my...; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full." 170 THE CHRISTIAN'S PENNY MAGAZINE. 11 WHAT HAVE I TO DO WITH SAILORS >" John. Father, I want you to... | |
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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. 
