 | Peter Cunningham - 1851 - 382 pagina’s
...Spenser calls it " The silver-streaming Thames." Denham has sung its praises in some noble couplets — " 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, withont o'erflowing full." And Pope described its banks with the accuracy... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1851 - 442 pagina’s
...East so much wit, and mirth, and spleen about you, There is no living with thee, nor without thee. O, could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My...theme : Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not duJZ ; Strong, without rage ; without o'erflowing, full. 'Tis hard to say if greater want of skill... | |
 | 1851 - 496 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | John Coleman (of Dover.) - 1851 - 892 pagina’s
...offensive errors he endeavoured to avoid. " Oh could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My bright example as it is my theme ; Though deep, yet clear...; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full." "Cooper's Hill" is the most ambitious, and by far the best, of Denham's works. Independent of its intrinsic... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1852 - 380 pagina’s
...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...dull, Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. LESSON LXXXVII. Upon the Sight of a Great Library. — JOSEPH HALL.* 1. WHAT a world of wit is here... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 pagina’s
...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...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... | |
 | DANIEL WEBSTER - 1853 - 778 pagina’s
...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...dull, Strong without rage, without o'erflowing, full." But, Gentlemen, there are other things about this State of yours. You are here at the foot of Lake... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1853 - 336 pagina’s
...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...: Strong without rage ; without o'erflowing, full !" [In the first edit, it was "foaming though not full," a happier expression.] 40 The reader who has... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1853 - 342 pagina’s
...was, " Durgen may be read," a poem against Pope by Ward.] *i Parody on Denham, " Cooper's Hill :" " 0 could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great...: Strong without rage; without o'erflowing, full!" [In the first edit, it was "foaming though not full," a happier expression.] 40 The reader who has... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1853 - 644 pagina’s
...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...dull, Strong without rage, without o'erflowing, full." But, Gentlemen, there are other things about this State of yours. You are here at the foot of Lake... | |
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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. 
