 | 1828 - 746 pages
...charming lines with which Denham describes the “silver river :“— “Oh! could I flow lik¿e 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'erflowiDg fulL Immediately at your feet is the plain of Runnemede,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 406 pages
...IMITATIONS. Ver. 169. Flow, Welsted, flow ! #e.] Parody on Denham, Cooper's Hill; " 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 484 pages
...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 ! * By Garth, in his " Poem on Claremont," and by Pope in his " Windsor Forest." Though deep, yet clear... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 412 pages
...IMITATIONS. Welsted, flow ! # Parody on Denham, Ver. 169. Flow, Cooper's Hill : " 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 408 pages
...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!".... | |
 | Outlines - 1825 - 288 pages
...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,...dull, Strong without rage, Without o'erflowing full." Any approach to such a combined interchange of sense and sentiment can never be made where vanity keeps... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...thing, no plaee, is strange, While his fair bosom is the world's exehange. O eould I flow like thee ! ne despair, and seepter'd eare ; To triumph, and to die, are mine.' He sr elear, though gentle yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. Heaven her Eridanus... | |
 | Benjamin Humphrey Smart - Elocution - 1826 - 242 pages
...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...dull, Strong, without rage, without o'erflowing full. 9. Pleasures — are ever in our hands or eyes, A'nd when in act — they cease, in prospect — rise... | |
 | English poetry - 1826 - 300 pages
...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...; Strong without rage ; without o'erflowing, full. Heaven her Eridanus no more shall boast, Whose fame in thine, like lesser current, 's lost,. Thy nobler... | |
 | Horace Wellbeloved - London (England) - 1826 - 138 pages
...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...dull; Strong, without rage; without o'erflowing, full. Heav'n her Eridanus no more shall boast, Her fame in thine, like lesser currents, lost"—DENHAM. THE... | |
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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. 
