 | 1803 - 598 pages
...Ibme Jines iu Cowley. Thus : " O could I flow like thee, and raak* thy ttream My great txample, as rt is my theme! Tho* deep, yet clear ; tho' gentle, yet not dull ; Strong, without r.ige ; without o'erflow, ing, fu!l."y ' f* Hi; undid ftyle like a clear ft ream does flide. And bia... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English language - 1805 - 936 pages
...wat'ry labyrinth. Mi/ten. U could I flow like thec, and make thy stream My great example, as thou art my theme! Tho' deep yet clear, tho' gentle yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. Dtnbam. Thus from one common source our streams divide; Ours it the Trojan,... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1805 - 1054 pages
...world's excnange. O could I flow like the e, and make thy dream My great example, as it is my theme 1 Tho deep, yet clear; tho' gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'errlowing full. Heaven her Eridanus no more (hall boalt, . ' hole fame in tbine, like lefler... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1805 - 350 pages
...opposition to each other, or with some marked variety, they require to be distinguished by a comma : as,. " Tho' deep, yet clear ; tho' gentle, yet not dull ; Strong, without rage ; without o'erflowing, full." " Good men, in this frail, imperfect state, are often found, not only... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 442 pages
...bis mafters — His IM ITATION S. VER. 169. Flow)WelJled.fa,w / &'t:.] Parody on Denham, Cooper' 't Hill: " O could 1 flow like thee, and make thy ftream...; tho' gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage ; without o'erflowing, full !" WARBURTON. " So fweetly mawkifh, and fo fmoothly dull ; " Heady, not... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 440 pages
...Hia IM IT AT IONS. VER. 169. Flow, Welfted,jlow! &c.] Parody on Denham, Coopcr't Hill: " O could I flow like thee, and make thy ftream My great example,...; tho' gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage ; without overflowing, full !" WARBURTON, " So fweetly mawkifh, and fo fmoothly dull ; " Heady, not... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 448 pages
...His 1 M ITATIONS. VER. 169. Flow, Weljled.fo<w! EsV.] Parody on Denham, Cooper's Hill: " O could I flow like thee, and make thy ftream My great example,...; tho' gentle, yet not -dull ; Strong without rage ; without o'erflowing, full !" WARBURTOK. *' So fweetly mawkifli, and fo fmoothly dull ; " Heady, not... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 468 pages
...Floiu,WelJled,Jlo'u.'>l£c.'\ Parody on Denham, Cooper'' Hill: " O could I flow like thee, and make thy (beam My great example, as it is my theme : Tho' deep, yet...; tho' gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage ; without o'erflowing, full !'" " So fweetly mawkifli, and fo fmoothly dull j " Heady, not ftrong ;... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...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 ! Tho' deep, yet...tho' gentle, yet not dull ; Strong, without rage, without o'erflowing, full. Heav'n her Eridanus no more shall boast, Whose fame in thine, like lesser... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 482 pages
...commended them, almoft every writer for a century paft has imitated, are generally known : *.* O could I flow like thee, and make thy ftream ** My great example, as it is my theme ! * By Garth, in his « Poem on Clarcmont j" and by Pope, in *is " Windfor Foreft." H. " Though " Though... | |
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My great example, as it is my theme ! Tho' deep, yet clear ; tho' gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full. 
