 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 Seiten
...the morality too frequent, and tlic sentiments sometimes such as will not bear a rigorous enquiry. The four verses, -which, since Dryden has commended...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 - 498 Seiten
...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 - 788 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 336 Seiten
...imitated, are generally known : " O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream " My great exampTe, as it is my theme ! " Though deep, yet clear, though...rage, without o'erflowing full." The lines are in J hemselves not perfect; for most of the words, thus artfully opposed, are to be unUS derstood simply... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1806 - 796 Seiten
...morality. SIR JOHN DENHAM. О could I flow like tbee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is iny theme ! Thoug-h deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet...Strong -without rage ; without o'erflowing, full. Of this famous passage, to which Dryden has nothing equal, and Pope nothing supérieur, Dr. Johnson... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1807 - 446 Seiten
...writer for a century past has imitated, are generally known ; » O could I flow like thee, and male thy stream < My great example, as it is my theme ! ' Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dnllj * Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full.' The lines are in themselves not perfect;... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 388 Seiten
...Flow. Welsted, flow! &c.] Parody on Denham Cooper s Hill : ' O could I flow like thee, and make tby stream My great example, as it is my theme: Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dull : Strung without rage; without o'ei flowing full :• 177 Embrace, emheace, my sons! he foes... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 512 Seiten
...So that to us no thing, no place is strange, While his fair bosom is the world's exchange. O could 1 flow like thee ; and make thy stream My great example,...theme; Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erfiowiog full; Heaven her Eridanus no more shall boast,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 Seiten
...bear a rigorous inquiry. The four verses, which, since Dryden has commended them, almost every wntrt for a century past has imitated, are generally known...theme ! Though deep, yet clear; though gentle, yet not dull j Strung without rage, without o'erflowing full. The lines are in. themselves not perfect;... | |
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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. 
