 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 614 pages
...Hill,' has been admired and imitated, as full, flowing, and sonorous. Speaking of the river Thames : " O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great...my theme ; Though deep yet clear, though gentle yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full." There cannot be a better specimen of the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 602 pages
...Hill,' has been admired and imitated, as full, flowing, and sonorous. Speaking of the river Thames: " O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great...my theme; Though deep yet clear, though gentle yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full." There cannot be a better specimen of the... | |
 | Stanhope Busby - 1837 - 136 pages
...plants. So that to us no thing, no plai« is strange, While his fair bosom is the world's exchange. O could I flow like thee ! and make thy stream My...my theme; Though deep yet clear, though gentle yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. Denham was a true royalist, and wrote many... | |
 | Thomas Faulkner - 1839 - 482 pages
...river. Rowe calls it " The King of the Floods,"and Denham characterises it in that celebrated passage, O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great...theme : Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage ; without o'erflowing, full." FISHERY. — The fisheries were leased... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 pages
...long, the morality too frequent, and the sentiments sometimes such as will not bear a rigorous inquiry. The four verses, which, since Dryden has commended...past has imitated, are generally known: O could I Dow like thee, and make thy stream My grenl example, as it is my theme ! Though deep, yet clear; though... | |
 | 1840 - 560 pages
...ball, The Retreat of Seventy-Six. 3S5 PASSAIC: A GROUP OF POEMS TOUCHING THAT RIVER. BY FLAC C 09. ' OH could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great...theme ; Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full.1 DENMAN. TALE FOURTH. TUB RETREAT OF SEVENTT-SIX.... | |
 | John Fisher Murray - 1842 - 322 pages
...morality too frequent, and the sentiments sometimes such as will not bear a rigorous inquiry. " The few verses, which, since Dryden has commended them, almost...known: - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream Mr great example, as it is my theme : Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1842 - 716 pages
...long, the morality too frequent, and the sentiments sometimes such as will not bear a rigorous inquiry. The four verses, which, since Dryden has commended...generally known : O, could I flow like thee, and make [hy stream My great example, ал it is my theme ! Thnuffli ilnep, yet clear ; (hough ift- ntle, yet... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...plants ; So that to us no 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...my theme ; Though deep yet clear, though gentle yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full.2 Denham. • THE COMMON LOT.3 ONCE in the... | |
 | James Thorne - 1847 - 480 pages
...attain the excellence he sought after in the words of his iamoug apostrophe to the Thames : — " 0 could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great...theme ! Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dull ; Strong, without rage ; without o'erflowing, full." " Four verses which," as Johnson remarks,... | |
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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. 
