 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1821 - 788 sider
...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 - 1822 - 294 sider
...Hill: IMITATIONS. Flout, Welsted, Jlow! &c.] Parody on Denham. Cooper's ' O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my...Strong without rage ; without o'erflowing, full!* 177 Embrace, embrace, my sons! be foes no more.'] VIRG. j£n. VI. , ' Ne tanta animis assneseite bella,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 290 sider
...Flow, Welsted, flow! &c."j Parody on Denham. Cooper's Hill: ' Q could 1 flow like tbee, and make tby stream My great example, as it is my theme : Though...dull: Strong without rage; without o'erflowing, full!" 177 Embrace, embrace, my sons! be foes no more.'] VlRG. Mn. VI. ' Ne tanta animis assnescite bella,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 328 sider
...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; Though deep, yet clear; though gentle, yet not dull; Strong without rage, without p'erflowing full; Heaven her Eridanus no more shall boast, Whose... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 390 sider
...IMITATIONS. Ver. 169. Flow, Welsted, flow!] Parody on Denham, Cooper's Hill. " 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 652 sider
...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...; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full." The lines are in themselves not perfect; for most of the words, thus artfully opposed, are to be understood... | |
 | 1828 - 746 sider
...charming lines with which Denham describes the “silver river :“— “Oh! could I flow lik¿e 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'erflowiDg fulL Immediately at your feet is the plain of Runnemede,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 484 sider
...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 ! * By Garth, in his " Poem on Claremont," and by Pope in his " Windsor Forest." Though deep, yet clear... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 412 sider
...IMITATIONS. Welsted, flow ! # Parody on Denham, Ver. 169. Flow, Cooper's Hill : " 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 408 sider
...Ver. 169. Flow, Welsted, flow! ifc.~\ Parody on Denham, Cooper't Hill: " O could I flow like thec, 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!".... | |
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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. 
