| 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.... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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;... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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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