 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.  The Art of Rhetoric Made Easy - Seite 52von John Holmes (master of Holt grammar school.) - 1739Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 408 Seiten
...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!". P. So sweetly mawkish,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 450 Seiten
...almost every writer for a century past has imitated, are generally known: " 0 could I flow like thcc, 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."... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 Seiten
...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 ! Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 Seiten
...So that to us no thing, no plaee, is strange, While his fair bosom is the world's exehange. O eould ates assign. Be thine despair, and seepter'd eare ; To triumph, and to die ; Though deep yet elear, though gentle yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full.... | |
 | Outlines - 1825 - 288 Seiten
...its sparkle to the surface. An old poet most elegantly illustrates this subject, in an apostrophe to the river Thames. " O ! could I flow like thee, And make thy stream My chief example As it is my theme ; Though deep, yet clear, Though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without... | |
 | Horace Wellbeloved - 1826 - 138 Seiten
...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 ! Though deep, yet clear; though gentle, yet not dull; Strong, without rage; without o'erflowing, full.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 430 Seiten
...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! Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yetnotdull; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full.... | |
 | Benjamin Humphrey Smart - 1826 - 242 Seiten
...consider that he shall 6ne day be old, and remember, when he is old, that he has once been young. 8. 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'erflowing full.... | |
 | George Lewis Smyth - 1826 - 1044 Seiten
...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 ! Though deep, yet dear ; though gentle, yet no< dull ; Strong without rage, without o'crfawing full."... | |
 | 1826 - 300 Seiten
...plants. So that to us no thing, no place is strange, While his fair bosom is the world's exchange. Oh, 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'erflowing,... | |
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