| John Bell - 1800 - 440 páginas
...world-'sexchange. C O could I flow like thee ! and make thy stream My great example, at it is my theme ; 1 90 Tho' deep yet clear, tho' gentle yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full ; Iltav'n her Eridanus no more shall boast, Whose fame is thine, like lesser current, 's lost i Thy... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 476 páginas
...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 Claremont j" and by Pope, in his "WindforForeft." H. *' Though deep,... | |
| Thomas Warton - 1802 - 380 páginas
...Denham's celebrated addrefs to the Thames in Cooper i Hill; O could I jlaw like thce, and make ihyjlream My great example, as it is my theme, Tho' deep yet...dull, Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. [ 7 ] To blot the beauties of thy whiter page ! A rage that fullies e'en thy guiltlefs lays, And blafts... | |
| Thomas Warton - 1802 - 332 páginas
...Denham's celebrated addrefs to the Thames in Cooper's mil.O could I flow like thee, and make thyjlream My great example, as it is my theme, Tho' deep yet...dull, Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. [ 7 3 To blot the beauties of thy whiter page ! A rage that fullies e'en thy guilt! efs lays, And Wafts... | |
| 1803 - 544 páginas
...: • . " О с -"MI flow like thee, and make thy ((ream My great example, as it it my theme! Tno' deep, yet clear; tho' gentle, yet not dull ; Strong, without rage ; without o'erflowing, full." PENHAM'S COOPER'S H;: ; . if »I " His candid ftyle like a clear dream does flide, And his bright fancy... | |
| 1803 - 600 páginas
...Ibme Jines iu Cowley. Thus : " O could I flow like thee, and raak* thy ttream My great txample, as rt is my theme! Tho* deep, yet clear ; tho' gentle, yet not dull ; Strong, without r.ige ; without o'erflow, ing, fu!l."y ' f* Hi; undid ftyle like a clear ft ream does flide. And bia... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 924 páginas
...wat'ry labyrinth. Mi/ten. U could I flow like thec, and make thy stream My great example, as thou art my theme! Tho' deep yet clear, tho' gentle yet not...dull, Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. Dtnbam. Thus from one common source our streams divide; Ours it the Trojan, yours tV Arcadian side.... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1805 - 350 páginas
...opposition to each other, or with some marked variety, they require to be distinguished by a comma : as,. " Tho' deep, yet clear ; tho' gentle, yet not dull ;...Strong, without rage ; without o'erflowing, full." " Good men, in this frail, imperfect state, are often found, not only in union ivit/i, but in opposition... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1805 - 1054 páginas
...world's excnange. O could I flow like the e, and make thy dream My great example, as it is my theme 1 Tho deep, yet clear; tho' gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'errlowing full. Heaven her Eridanus no more (hall boalt, . ' hole fame in tbine, like lefler... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1806 - 448 páginas
...d hit majlers — His 1 M ITATIONS. VER. 169. Flow, Weljled.fo<w! EsV.] Parody on Denham, Cooper's Hill: " O could I flow like thee, and make thy ftream...; Strong without rage ; without o'erflowing, full !" WARBURTOK. *' So fweetly mawkifli, and fo fmoothly dull ; " Heady, not ftrong ; o'erflowing, tho'... | |
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