 | Henry Headley - 1810 - 238 pages
...thine only curse; Secure then of thy merit, thou didst hate That servile base dependence upon Fate ; 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. Cooper's Hill. See an excellent parody... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 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; tho' deep yet clear, tho' gentle yet not dull ; strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. /Jeav'n... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 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; tbo' deep yet clear, tho' gentle yet not dull ; strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. Heav'n... | |
 | Henry Headley - 1810 - 236 pages
...thine onlj curse; Secure then of thy merit, thou didst hate That servile base dependence upon Fate ; O could I flow like thee ! and make thy stream My great examples as it is my theme ; Though deep, yet clear; though gentle, yet not dull ; . Strong, without... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pages
...generally known : * By Garth, in his " Poem on Claremout ;" Jnxl by Pope, ia hit " Windsor Forest." H. " O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream " My...it is my theme ! " Though deep, yet clear ; though gentlu, yet not dull ; " Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full." The lines are in themselves... | |
 | William Bernard Cooke - 1811 - 324 pages
...place is strange, While his fair bosom is the world's exchange. O could I flow like thee, and make my 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 ; Heav'n her Eridanus no more shall boast,... | |
 | E. Polehamton - 1815 - 470 pages
...III. I> So that to us no thing , nit 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'erftowing full. • Although it is the current opinion that... | |
 | Edward Polehampton - 1815 - 472 pages
...So that to us no thinf, no place is strangr, While his fair bosom i.- the world's exchange. O conld I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as- it is my theme ! Though deep, yet clear ; thoBgh gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erfiowing full. Although it is the current... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 486 pages
...almost every writer for a century past has imitated, are generally known : " O could 1 flow like thec, 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." The lines are in themselves not perfect;... | |
 | John Evans - 1817 - 610 pages
...perfected it." The four following lines in Cooper's Hill are inimitable : — O! could I flow like ihee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme ; Though deep yet clear, thb' gentle yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full ! " Cooper's Hill (says Dr.... | |
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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. 
