 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 336 páginas
...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... | |
 | Charles Brockden Brown - 1806 - 498 páginas
...of the poem ; though the general sentiment is there. О could 1 flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme ! Though deep...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 páginas
...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 theme ! Though deep,...; 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 Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1806 - 796 páginas
...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... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1806 - 788 páginas
...violation of the laws of morality. SIR JOHN DENHAM. О could I flow like Лес, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme ! Though deep, yet clear ; though gentie, yet not dull ¡ Strong without rage ; without o'erflowing, full. Of this famous passage, to... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1807 - 446 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...strange, While his fair bosom is the world's exchange. O could 1 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'erfiowiog full; Heaven her Eridanus no more shall boast,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 páginas
...strange, While his fair bosom is the world's exchange. . O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme ! Though deep,...dull; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. Heaven her Erklanus no more shall boast; Whose fame in thine, like lesser current, 's lost Thy nobler... | |
 | Henry Headley - 1810 - 238 páginas
...didst hate That servile base dependence upon Fate ; O could I flow like thee ! and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme ; Though deep,...Strong, without rage ; without o'erflowing, full. Cooper's Hill. See an excellent parody of these lines in the Dunciad, Book iii. 1. 169. Success thou... | |
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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. 
