 | Henry Headley - 1810 - 236 Seiten
...thine onlj 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 examples as it is my theme ; Though deep, yet clear; though gentle, yet not dull ; . Strong, without... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 Seiten
...generally known : * By Garth, in his " Poem on Claremout ;" Jnxl by Pope, ia hit " Windsor Forest." H. " O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream " My great example, as it is my theme ! " Though deep, yet clear ; though gentlu, yet not dull ; " Strong without rage, without o'erflowing... | |
 | Samuel Owen - 1811 - 416 Seiten
...deserts, woods in cities plants ; So that to UE, nothing, no place is strange, While his fair bosom is the world's exchange. O could I flow like thee, and make my stream My great example as it is my theme ! INTRODUCTION. Though deep yet clear ; though gentle... | |
 | William Bernard Cooke - 1811 - 324 Seiten
...deserts, woods in cities plants ; So that to us, nothing, no place is strange, While his fair bosom is the world's exchange. O could I flow like thee, and make my stream My great example as it is my theme ! Though deep yet clear ; though gentle yet not dull ;... | |
 | E. Polehamton - 1815 - 470 Seiten
...both Indies ours ; VOL. III. I> So that to us no thing , nit place is strange, While his fair bosom is the world's exchange. O could I flow like thee,...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'erftowing full.... | |
 | Edward Polehampton - 1815 - 472 Seiten
...So that to us no thinf, no place is strangr, While his fair bosom i.- the world's exchange. O conld I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as- it is my theme ! Though deep, yet clear ; thoBgh gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erfiowing full.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 486 Seiten
...almost every writer for a century past has imitated, are generally known : " O could 1 flow like thec, 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... | |
 | John Evans - 1817 - 610 Seiten
...perfected it." The four following lines in Cooper's Hill are inimitable : — O! could I flow like ihee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme ; Though deep yet clear, thb' gentle yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full !... | |
 | Edward Polehampton, John Mason Good - 1818 - 492 Seiten
...as no Iblnp, no place is strange, While his fair bo?om is the world's exchange. O could I flow Ilk'. thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme ! Though deep, yet clear ; thongh gentle, yet not dutl ; Strong without rage, whboit o'erftowing full.... | |
 | John Moore - 1820 - 476 Seiten
...deserts, woods in cities 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,...make thy stream, My great example, as it is my theme ! Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not d«H j 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. 
