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" &c.] Parody on Denham, Cooper's Hill: ' 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! "
The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope ....: Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, being ... - Page 301
by Alexander Pope - 1835
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Poems and Translations: With the Sophy, a Tragedy

Sir John Denham - English drama - 1709 - 354 pages
...thing, no place is ftrange, While his fair Bofom is the World'* Exchange. O could I flow like thec, and make thy Stream My great Example, as it is my Theme! y / Tho' deep, yet clear, tho' gentle, yet not dull ! Strong without rage, without o'cr-flowing full....
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The Art of English Poetry Containing: Rules for making verses. A collection ...

Edward Bysshe - English language - 1710 - 620 pages
...World, and in his flying Tow'rs, -• Brings home to us, and makes both Indies ours. O could Iflowlike thee, and make thy Stream My great Example, as it is my Theam!. TIIQ' Tho' deep, yet clear; tho' gentle, yet not dull; Strong without Rage, without o'erflowing...
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The First Part of Miscellany Poems: Containing Variety of New ..., Part 5

John Dryden, John Milton, William D'Avenant - 1716 - 418 pages
...plants. So that to us no thing, no place is ft range, While his fair Bofom is the World's Exchange. 0 could I flow like thee, and make thy Stream My Great Example, as it is my Theam! Though deep, yet clear, theugh gentle, yet not doll, Strong without Rage, without e'er-flowing...
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The Complete Art of Poetry: In Six Parts, I. Of the Nature, Use ..., Volume 2

Charles Gildon - Criticism - 1718 - 490 pages
...Shores, Brings home to us, and makes both Indies ourr. Vifits the World, and in his flying Tow'rs, O could I flow like thee, and make thy Stream My great Example, as it is my Theam ! Tho' deep, ye? clear ; tho' gentle, yet not dull ; Strong, without Rage ; without o'erflowing,...
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Poems and Translations;: With The Sophy, a Tragedy

Sir John Denham - 1719 - 258 pages
...plants. So that to us no thing, no place is ftrange, While his fiii Bofom is the World's Exchange. O could I flow like thee, and make thy Stream My great Example, as it is my Tliemc! Tho' deep, yet clear ; tho' gentle, yet not dull; Strong without Rage, without o'er-flowing...
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The Poetical Register: Or, The Lives and Characters of All the ..., Volume 1

Giles Jacob - Dramatists, English - 1723 - 414 pages
...the World, and, in his flying Towers, , \ Brings Home to us, and makes both Indies ours. , O could 1 flow like thee, and make thy Stream My great Example, as it is my "theme ! Tw deep, yet clear \ tho 1 gentle, yet nor dull; Strong, without Rage, without Overflowing, full;...
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The Art of Rhetoric Made Easy

John Holmes - Oratory - 1739 - 202 pages
...Brachiaque ad fuperas interritus extulit auras, &c. Virg. Mn. 5. See Sir John Detfbam on the River Thames— O could I flow like thee, and make thy Stream — My great Example, as it is my Theme! — Tho' deep, yet clear j tho' gentle, yet not dull;—Strong without without Rage; without o'erflowing,...
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The Art of Rhetoric Made Easy: Or, The Elements of Oratory ..., Books 1-2

John Holmes - Elocution - 1755 - 204 pages
...ad fuperas inten itus cxtulit auras, &c. Virg. jEn. 5. See Sir John Denbam on the Ri ver Thames— 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 without Rage; without o'erflowing,...
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The Art of English Poetry: Containing. Rules for making verses. A collection ...

Edward Bysshe - English language - 1762 - 358 pages
...Shores, Vifits the World, and, in his flying Tow'rs, Brings home to us, and makes both Indies ours. 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....
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The Popular Educator, Volumes 5-6; Volume 14

Geography - 1867 - 878 pages
...quoted and commended from the days of Dryden downwards :— " Ob, could I flow like thee, and moke thy stream My great example, as it is my theme ! Though...; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full." Two other poets, from among a large number of obscurer names, demand mention, though we can only mention...
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