 | William Beckford - 1790
...critic has beftowed a very warm and elegant encomium. O could I flow like thee, and make thy ftream My great example, as it is my theme ! Though deep, yet clear; though gentle, yet not dull; Strpng without rage, without o'er-flowing, full. Of this gigantic prodigy of literary perfeverance... | |
 | John Moore - 1795 - Liczba stron: 508
...ftrange, While his fair bofom is the world's exchange. O could I flow like thee, and make thy ftream My great example, as it is my theme ! Though deep,...dull; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. Heaven her Eridanus no more fhall boaft, Whofe fame in thine, like lefler current 's loft. You will... | |
 | Johann Joachim Eschenburg - 1789 - Liczba stron: 488
...plants. So that to us no thing, no place is ftrange, While his fair Boiom is the World s Exchange. . О could I flow like thee, and make thy Stream My great Example , as it is my Theme ! Though deep, y et clear ; th о gentle, yet not dull; Strong without Rage, without o'erflo ingfulll , Heav'n her... | |
 | John Bell - 1796 - Liczba stron: 480
...night hideous." Sia!;esp. •ii.' 169. Flaw, l'relited,jiawl &cj Parody on Denham, Cooper's llil! : " O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream " My great example, as it is my theiwe: " 'f ho.' deep, yet clear; tho' gentle, yet not dull ; - 5' Strong without- rage ;- without... | |
 | T. Bowen - 1799 - Liczba stron: 76
...ftrange, While his fair bofom is the World's exchange. O could I flow like thee, and make thy ftream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep yet clear ; tho' gentle yet not dull; Strong without rage, without overflowing full. Who that beholds thee, NILE,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - Liczba stron: 714
...eve writer for a century past has imitated, are generally known: " O could I flow like thee, and mike thy stream " My great example, as it is my theme ! " Though deep, yet clear; though gentle, yet not dull; " Strong without rage, without o'erfloiving full." The lines arc in themselves not perfect... | |
 | John Bell - 1800 - Liczba stron: 440
...plants. 186 So that to us no thing, no place is strange, While his fair bosom it the world-'sexchange. C O could I flow like thee ! and make thy stream My great example, at it is my theme ; 1 90 Tho' deep yet clear, tho' gentle yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - Liczba stron: 716
...Dryden has commended them, almost every writer for a century past has imitated, are generally known : " O could I flow like thee. and make thy stream " My...theme '. " Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet net dull ; " Strong without rage, without o'crflo*ing full." The lines are in themselves not perfect... | |
 | Charles Brockden Brown - 1806 - Liczba stron: 498
...were not in the first printed edition of the poem ; though the general sentiment is there. О could 1 flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example,...dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. Hcav'n her Eridanus no more bhall boast ; Her fame in thine, like lesser currents, lost; Thy nobler... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1806 - Liczba stron: 788
...trial of skill, than a violation of the laws of morality. SIR JOHN DENHAM. O could I flow like tliee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my...; Strong without rage ; without o'erflowing, full. Of this famous passage, to which Dry den has nothing equal, and Pope nothing superiour, Dr. Johnson... | |
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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. 
