 | Thomas Green - Great Britain - 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."... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 466 pages
...has commended them, almost every writer for a century past has imitated, are generally known. • " 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." The lines are in themselves not perfect... | |
 | John Moore - 1820 - 476 pages
...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...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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 476 pages
...Dryden has commended them, 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 ' X * By Garth, in his " Poem on Claremont," and by Pope in his " Windsor Forest." Though deep, yet... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 470 pages
...almos; every writer for a century . past has imitated, are generally known. " O could I flow like hee, and make thy stream " My great example, as it is my theme ! " Though deep, yet cl«ar ; though gentle, yet not dull ; " Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full." The lines... | |
 | John Moore, Robert Anderson - English literature - 1820 - 470 pages
...plants, So that, to DS, 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 ray theme ! Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing... | |
 | Edward Polehampton - Natural history - 1821 - 462 pages
...III. D So that to us no thing, no place is strange, While his fair bosom is the world's cxclmnge. 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. Although it is the current opinion that the... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - Wonder - 1821 - 788 pages
...thing, no place is strangcr While his fair bosom is the world's exchange. O could I flow like thec, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my...theme ! Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dull ; Strongwithout rage, without o'erflowing full. DEMI AM. THIS fine river, if considered respectively... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 328 pages
...Dryden has commended them, almost every writer for a century past has imitated, are generally known: 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 fall. The lines are in themselves not perfect; for... | |
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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. 
