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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. "
American Monthly Knickerbocker - Page 335
1840
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The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review, Volume 3

David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1806 - 788 pages
...trial of skill, than a violation of the laws of morality. SIR JOHN DENHAM. О could I flow like Лес, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme ! Though deep, yet clear ; though gentie, yet not dull ¡ Strong without rage ; without o'erflowing, full. Of this famous passage, to...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - English literature - 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 gentle, yet not dull; " Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full." The lines are in J hemselves not perfect;...
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The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser: With the Life of the Author ..., Volume 9

Edmund Spenser - English poetry - 1807 - 446 pages
...plants. 186 So that to us no thing, no place is strange, While his fair hosom is the world's exchange. O could I flow like thee ! and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme; 190 Tho' deep yet clear, tlio' gentle yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1

Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...Making night hideous." Shaks. t Flow, Welsted, flow I &c.l Parody on Denham,i Cooper's Hill ; « O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme; Thongh deep, yet clear ; thongh gentle, yet not dull: Strong without rage; without overflowing full...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In Four Volumes. Collated with the ...

Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 388 pages
...Flow. Welsted, flow! &c.] Parody on Denham Cooper s Hill : ' O could I flow like thee, and make tby stream My great example, as it is my theme: Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dull : Strung without rage; without o'ei flowing full :• 177 Embrace, emheace, my sons! he foes...
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Specimens of the British Poets ...

British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 512 pages
...So that to us no thing, no place is strange, While his fair bosom is the world's exchange. O could 1 flow like thee ; and make thy stream My great example,...theme; Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erfiowiog full; Heaven her Eridanus no more shall boast,...
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The muses' bower, embellished with the beauties of English poetry, Volume 3

English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 308 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; Heav'n...
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Elegant Extracts, Volumes 1-2

Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...thing, no place is strange, While his fair bosom is the world's exchange. 0 rould 1 flow like thre, | G u n ! Iho' deep, yet clear; tho' gentle, yet not dull : Strong without rage, without o'erflowcing full....
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Select Beauties of Ancient English Poetry, Volume 2

Henry Headley - English poetry - 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 great...theme ; Though deep, yet clear; though gentle, yet not dull ; Strong, without rage ; without o'erflowing, full. Cooper's Hill. See an excellent parody...
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Poems by Cowley, Waller, Butler, Denham, Dryden, and Pomfret, Issues 77-79

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...
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