 | Luís de Camões - Explorers - 1791 - 494 pages
...eredit to all thofe fables, infurpaffing them. 'i Sir John Denham, in his Poem on Cooper's Hill, lays to the Thames; O could I flow like thee, and make thy...clear, tho* gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. " Camouens addreffes the Nymphs of Tagus in the like manner ; " O Nymphs,... | |
 | Luís de Camões - Explorers - 1791 - 486 pages
...them. " Sir John Denham, in his Poem on Cooper's Hill, fays to the Thames ; O could I flow like thec, and make thy ftream, My great example, as it is my...clear, tho' gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. " Camouens addrefles the Nymphs of Tagus in the like manner ; " O Nymphs,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1791 - 966 pages
...ftrange, While his fair bofom is the world's cxctiange. O could I flow like thee, and make thy ftrcam - without o'erflovving full. Heaven her Eridanus no more (hall boaft, Whole fame in thine, like leflcr... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - Conduct of life - 1791 - 510 pages
...world's exchange. О could I flow like thce, and make thy ftrcam My great example, as it is my theme 1 Tho' deep, yet clear; tho' gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'ernowing full. Heav'n her Hridanus no more ihall boaft, Whofc fame in thine, like IcrTcr... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 pages
...Dryden has commended them, almoft 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 ! * By Garth, in his " Poem on Clarenjont," and by Pope, :a hi» " Windfor Foreft." H. * ( Though deep,... | |
 | James Roach - English poetry - 1794 - 272 pages
...ftrange, While his fair bofom is the world's exchange.. O could I ftow like thee, and make thy 11 ream-, My great example,, as it is my theme ! Tho' deep,...clear; tho' gentle, yet not dull; Strong without rage, without o'erftowing full. Heaven her Eridanus no more mall boaft, Whofe fame in thine, like lefter... | |
 | Joseph Ritson - English poetry - 1793 - 388 pages
...plants ; 1 86 So that to us no thing, no place, is ftrange, While his fair bofom is the worlds exchange. O could I flow like thee, and make thy ftream My great example, as it is my theme ! 196 Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o're-flowing... | |
 | 1793 - 376 pages
...plants; 186 So that to us no thing, no place, is ftrange, While his fair bofom is the worlds exchange. O could I flow like thee, and make thy ftream My great example, as it is my theme! 190 Though deep, yet clear; though gentle, yet not dull; Strong without rage, without o're-flowing... | |
 | John Bew - 1793 - 330 pages
...world's exchange. O could I flow like thee, and make thy itream My great example, as it is my theme l Tho' deep, yet clear ; tho' gentle, yet not dull; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. DlMIAU, Beneath her chalky cliffs fea-nymphs refort, And awful Neptune keeps... | |
 | Soame Jenyns, Charles Nalson Cole - 1793 - 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. 3 Plays Plays all the night, nor doubts each law to break, Himfelf unknowingly... | |
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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. 
