...if not of all the softness, of the Italian. " Oh ! could I make thy sweetly-flowing stream My bright example, as it is my theme ; Though deep, yet clear...Strong, without rage — -without o'erflowing, full." Such appears to have been the uninterrupted tenor of a life too felicitous perhaps to be permanent...

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...which have excited the most attention arc the following in a description of the river Ti limes: -' O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example — as it is my theme! Tho' deep, yet clear; tho' gentle, yet not dull ; Stronz without rage; without o'erflowinz, full."...

...has commended them, almost every writer for a century past has imitated, are generally known. • " O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream " My..." Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full." The lines are in themselves not perfect ; for most of the words, thus artfully opposed, are to be understood...

...plants, So that, to us, no thing, no place is strange, . . While his fair bosom is the world's exchange. O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream, My...theme ! Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not d«H j Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. Heaven her Bridanus no more shall boast,...

...Dryden has commended them, almost every writer for a century past has imitated, are generally known : O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme ' X * By Garth, in his " Poem on Claremont," and by Pope in his " Windsor Forest." Though deep, yet...

...plants, So that, to DS, no thing, no place is 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 ray theme ! Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing...

...almos; every writer for a century . past has imitated, are generally known. " O could I flow like hee, and make thy stream " My great example, as it is my theme ! " Though deep, yet cl«ar ; though gentle, yet not dull ; " Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full." The lines...

...VOL. III. D So that to us no thing, no place is strange, While his fair bosom is the world's cxclmnge. O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great...dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. Although it is the current opinion that the Thames had its name from the conjunction of the Tharae...

...thing, no place is strange, While his fair bosom is the world's exchange. O could I flow like thce, and make thy stream . « -My great example, as it...dull; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. DENHAM. THIS fine river, if considered respectively to its course tiul navigation, is not to be equalled...