 | Daniel Webster - 1851 - 672 pages
...and ample canal realizes, and more than realizes, what the poet has said of the River Thames : — " O, could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My...theme ! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'erflowing, full." But, Gentlemen, there are other things about... | |
 | American Sunday-School Union - 1851 - 256 pages
...the lines you repeated in your declamation this morning ? Gregory. They were from Denham : — " 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." Adler. Now please to give me the substance... | |
 | 1851 - 496 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...theme ; Though deep, yet clear; though gentle, yet not dull; Strong, without r;i^e ; without o'edlowing, full. The stream is so transparent, pure, and... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1851 - 642 pages
...ample canal realizes, and more than realizes, what the poet has said of the River 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." But, Gentlemen, there are other things about... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1851 - 492 pages
...does not recollect the charming lines with which Denham describes the " silver river ? " — " 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." Immediately at your feet is the plain of... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1852 - 380 pages
...is strange, .. While his fair bosom is the world's exchange. * He flourished from 1615 to 1668. 5. 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. LESSON LXXXVII. Upon the Sight of a Great... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 pages
...plants. So that to us no thing, no place, is strange, While his fair bosom is the world's exchange. 0 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. Heav'n her Eridanus no more shall boast, Whose... | |
 | DANIEL WEBSTER - 1853 - 778 pages
...and ample canal realizes* and more than realizes, what the poet has said of the River Thames : — " O, could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My...theme ! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'erflowing, full." But, Gentlemen, there are other things about... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1853 - 336 pages
...was, " Durgen may be read," a poem against Pope by Ward.] s9 Parody on Denham, " Cooper's Hill :" " 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 !" [In the first edit, it was "foaming though... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1853 - 644 pages
...ample canal realizes, and more than realizes, what the poet has said of the River 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." But, Gentlemen, there are other things about... | |
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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. 
