 | William Beckford - 1790
...critic has beftowed a very warm and elegant encomium. O could I flow like thee, and make thy ftream My great example, as it is my theme ! Though deep, yet clear; though gentle, yet not dull; Strpng without rage, without o'er-flowing, full. Of this gigantic prodigy of literary perfeverance... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 pages
...Clarenjont," and by Pope, :a hi» " Windfor Foreft." H. * ( Though deep, yet clear; though gentle, yet not "dull; " Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing...The lines are in themfelves not perfect; for moft t>f the words, thus artfully oppofed, are to be underftood fimply on one fide of the comparifon, and... | |
 | John Moore - 1795 - 508 pages
...ftrange, While his fair bofom is the world's exchange. O could I flow like thee, and make thy ftream My great example, as it is my theme ! Though deep,...dull; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. Heaven her Eridanus no more fhall boaft, Whofe fame in thine, like lefler current 's loft. You will... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1795 - 610 pages
...and make thy " ftream " My great example, as it is my theme ! " Tho' deep yet clear; tho' gentle, yet not " dull; " Strong without rage, without o'erflowing " full." The lines are in themfelves not pcrfecT: : for moft of the words, thus artfully oppofed, are Dd 2 to to be underftood fimply on one... | |
 | T. Bowen - 1799 - 76 pages
...ftrange, While his fair bofom is the World's exchange. O could I flow like thee, and make thy ftream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep yet clear ; tho' gentle yet not dull; Strong without rage, without overflowing full. Who that beholds thee, NILE,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pages
...a century past has imitated, are generally known: " O could I flow like thee, and mike thy stream " My great example, as it is my theme ! " Though deep, yet clear; though gentle, yet not dull; " Strong without rage, without o'erfloiving full." The lines arc in themselves not perfect... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 476 pages
...*' Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dull ; " Strong without rage, without o'erdowing full." The lines are in themfelves not perfect ; for...artfully oppofed, are to be underftood fimply on one lide of the comparifon, and metaphorically on the other; and if there be any language which does not... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...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 '. " Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet net dull ; " Strong without rage, without o'crflo*ing full." The lines are in themselves not perfect... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 482 pages
...j" and by Pope, in *is " Windfor Foreft." H. " Though " Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dull ; " Strong without rage, without o'erflowing...metaphorically on the other ; and if there be any language that does not exprefs intellectual operations by material images, into that language they cannot be... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 336 pages
...imitated, are generally known : " O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream " My great exampTe, as it is my theme ! " Though deep, yet clear, though...rage, without o'erflowing full." The lines are in J hemselves not perfect; for most of the words, thus artfully opposed, are to be unUS derstood simply... | |
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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. 
