| Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 484 páginas
...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 ! * By Garth, in his " Poem on Claremont," and by Pope in his " Windsor Forest." Though deep, yet clear... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1824 - 406 páginas
...thing of Ward's. P. IMITATIONS. Ver. 169. Flow, Welsted, flow ! #e.] Parody on Denham, Cooper's Hill; " 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 ; Strong without rage ; without o'erflowing, full... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 408 páginas
...Ver. 169. Flow, Welsted, flow! ifc.~\ Parody on Denham, Cooper't Hill: " O could I flow like thec, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme: Tho' deep, yet clear ; tho' gentle, yet not dull; Strong without rage; without o'erflowing, full!".... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 páginas
...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 •'...dull ; 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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 506 páginas
...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...dull ; 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... | |
| Outlines - 1825 - 288 páginas
...subject, in an apostrophe to the river Thames. " O ! could I flow like thee, And make thy stream My chief example As it is my theme ; Though deep, yet clear,...dull, Strong without rage, Without o'erflowing full." Any approach to such a combined interchange of sense and sentiment can never be made where vanity keeps... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 páginas
...So that to us no thing, no plaee, is strange, While his fair bosom is the world's exehange. O eould e X # 9 P RV y ^y í cӥ* [ DE1 4 l@ 0 V w IR ᰆ n" \ = <JgS V7IY>4 w?L elear, though gentle yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. Heaven her Eridanus... | |
| Horace Wellbeloved - 1826 - 138 páginas
...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 great...dull; Strong, without rage; without o'erflowing, full. Heav'n her Eridanus no more shall boast, Her fame in thine, like lesser currents, lost"—DENHAM. THE... | |
| Benjamin Humphrey Smart - 1826 - 242 páginas
...consider that he shall 6ne day be old, and remember, when he is old, that he has once been young. 8. O' could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My...dull, Strong, without rage, without o'erflowing full. 9. Pleasures — are ever in our hands or eyes, A'nd when in act — they cease, in prospect — rise... | |
| 1826 - 300 páginas
...plants. So that to us no thing, no place is strange, While his fair bosom is the world's exchange. Oh, could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great...; Strong without rage ; without o'erflowing, full. Heaven her Eridanus no more shall boast, Whose fame in thine, like lesser current, 's lost,. Thy nobler... | |
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