 | William Bernard Cooke - 1811 - 324 pages
...bestows it where it wants ; Cities in deserts, woods in cities plants ; So that to us, nothing, no 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 ;... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1817 - 882 pages
...Imitation of the celebrated lines in Denham : " O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My bright example as it is my theme ! Though deep yet clear, though gentle never dull, Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full." A Spanish writer commends Manzanares, the... | |
 | Edward Polehampton, John Mason Good - 1818 - 492 pages
...as no Iblnp, no place is strange, While his fair bo?om is the world's exchange. O could I flow Ilk'. thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme ! Though deep, yet clear ; thongh gentle, yet not dutl ; Strong without rage, whboit o'erftowing full. Although it is the current... | |
 | Thomas Green - 1818 - 654 pages
...if not of all the softness, of the Italian. " Oh ! could I make thy sweetly-flowing stream My bright example, as it is my theme ; Though deep, yet clear — though gentle, yet not dull, Strong, without rage — -without o'erflowing, full." Such appears to have been the uninterrupted... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 822 pages
...which have excited the most attention arc the following in a description of the river Ti limes: -' 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 ; Stronz without rage; without o'erflowinz, full."... | |
 | John Moore - 1820 - 476 pages
...bestows it where it wants., Cities in deserts, woods in cities plants, So that, to us, no thing, no place is strange, . . While his fair bosom is the...theme ! Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not d«H j Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. Heaven her Bridanus no more shall boast,... | |
 | John Moore, Robert Anderson - 1820 - 470 pages
...bestows it where it wants. Cities in deserts, woods in cities plants, So that, to DS, no thing, no place is strange, While his fair bosom is the world's...thee, and make thy stream, My great example, as it is ray 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. 
