| 1828 - 724 pagina’s
...does not recollect the charming lines with which Denham describes the " silver river :" — " Oh I could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great..., Strong without rage ; without o'erflowing full. Immediately at your feet is the plain of Runnemede, where the great battle between John and the Barons... | |
| Laconics - 1829 - 352 pagina’s
...constitution, and overreaches by instinct.—Taller. DCCCXIX. (The Thames.') O could I flow like thec! am! make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme;...dull; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. No crime so bold, but would be understood A real, or at least a seeming good; Who fears not to do ill,... | |
| Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 548 pagina’s
...; Finds wealth where 'tis, bestows it where it wants, Cities in deserts, woods in cities plants. 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'erflowingfnll. — Denham. MY soul, time posts away, And thou,... | |
| William Drummond, Peter Cunningham - 1833 - 358 pagina’s
...bears the happier share. Of this Johnson says, the numbers are musical, and the thoughts are just. O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great...; Strong without rage; without o'erflowing, full.* WALLER TO VANDYKE. Rare Artisan, whose pencil moves Not our delights alone, but loves : From thy shop... | |
| William Drummond, Peter Cunningham - 1833 - 354 pagina’s
...bears the happier share. Of this Johnson says, the numbers are musical, and the thoughts are just. O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great...; Strong without rage; without o'erflowing, full.* WALLER TO VANDYKE. Rare Artisan, whose pencil moves Not our delights alone, but loves : From thy shop... | |
| William Drummond, Peter Cunningham - 1833 - 354 pagina’s
...bears the happier share. Of this Johnson says, the numbers are musical, and the thoughts are just. 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'erflowiug, full.* WALLER TO VANDYKE. Rare Artisan, whose... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1835 - 382 pagina’s
...moon, Making night hideous.' SHAKESP. 16» Flaw, Welsted, flow! &c.] Parody on Denham, Cooper's Hill: ' O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great...dull : Strong without rage ; without o'erflowing full !' Embrace, embrace, my sons ! be foes no more ! «* Nor glad vile poets with true critics' gore. '... | |
| John Davies - 1835 - 402 pagina’s
...reference to various functions I might be called to discharge — ' O that I flowed like thee and made thy stream My great example, as it is my theme : Though...; Strong without rage ; without o'erflowing, full. ' About half way between Tours and Angers is the town of Saumur, celebrated for its cavalry school.... | |
| Calvin Colton - 1836 - 372 pagina’s
...that what graces London must be a grace. Certainly no one will deny that these lines are a beauty. " O ! could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My...Strong without rage ; without o'erflowing, full." The Thames, in passing through London, divides it, not into so nearly equal parts as the Seine does Paris,... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - 1836 - 390 pagina’s
...plants. So that to us no 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...dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. Heav'n her Eridanus no more shall boast, Whose fame in thine, like lesser current, 's lost : Thy nobler... | |
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