 | Alexander Pope - 1787 - 340 pages
...hideous" Shakefp. VER. 169. Flow, Welfied, few! etc.'} Parody on Dtnham, Caper's Hill : " O could 1 flow like thee, and make thy ftream " My great example,...tho' gentle, yet not dull; «' Strong without rage ; without o'er.ftWinj> full !" So fweetly mawkifh, and fo fmoothly dull; Heady, not flrong ; o'erflowing,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 498 pages
...Dryden has commended them, almofl every writer for a century paft has imitated, are generally known : '" 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 ; " Strong without rage, without o'er-flowmg... | |
 | John Moore - Italy - 1787 - 548 pages
...plants. So that, to us, no thing, no place is ftrange, While his fair bofom is the world's exchange, 0 could I flow like thee, and make thy ftream My great example, as it is my theme ! Though deep, yet clear j though gentle, yet not dull; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full.... | |
 | Henry Headley - English poetry - 1787 - 212 pages
...lines, addreffing the Thames : O could 1 flow like thee ! ami make thy ftreara My great example, as i: is my theme ; Tho' deep. yet clear; tho' gentle, yet not dull; Stronir, without rage j without overflowing, full. Cooper's Hill. See an excellent parody of thefe... | |
 | Johann Joachim Eschenaburg - Literature - 1789 - 484 pages
...lleber bje »ter berfiljnv teften/ I)Scf)fl glficElic^en/ unb utijiMifl oft nacf)9eaf)mten SSerfe: O could I flow like thee , and make thy ftream My great example , as it is my theme ! ' Though daep, yet clear ; tho gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full!... | |
 | Philip Neve - English poetry - 1789 - 164 pages
...encomium ; and is not, perhaps, at this day, anywhere equalled. Thefe Thefe celebrated verfes however, 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 ; Strong, without rage ; without o'erflowing,... | |
 | Thomas Pennant - London (England) - 1790 - 556 pages
...flrange, While his fair bofom is the world's exchange. O could I flow like thee, and make thy ftrcam My great example, as it is my theme ! Tho' deep, yet...Strong, without rage ; without o'erflowing, full. Heav'n her Eridanut no more fhall boaft, Whole fame in thine, like lefler currents, loft. APPENDIX.... | |
 | William Beckford - Agriculture - 1790
...happy example, and upon which the above-mentioned 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.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Poets, English - 1790 - 508 pages
...Dryden has commended them, almoft every writer for a century pafl has imitated, are generally known: " O could I flow like thee, and make thy ftream, " My great example, as it is my theme 1 * By Garth, in hi* " Poem on Claremont," and by Pope, in his " Windfor Foreft." H. " Though deep,... | |
 | Soame Jenyns, Charles Nalson Cole - 1790 - 308 pages
...wife, And talks of games of whift, and pig-tail pies ; * Parody on thefe lines of Sir John Denham. Tho' deep, yet clear, tho' gentle yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. Plays Plays all the night, nor doubts each law to break, Himfelf unknowingly has help'd to make ; Trembling... | |
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My great example, as it is my theme ! Tho' deep, yet clear ; tho' gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full. 
