 | the christians - 1836 - 426 pages
...strange, While his fair bosom is the world's exchange. О 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'erflowing full." 170 THE CHRISTIAN'S... | |
 | Calvin Colton - Great Britain - 1836 - 372 pages
...Certainly no one will deny that these lines are a beauty. " 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'erflowing, full." The Thames, in passing... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1836 - 390 pages
...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 yet clear, though gentle yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. Heav'n her Eridanus no... | |
 | Author of The young man's own book - American poetry - 1836 - 336 pages
...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, yet clear; though gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'efflowing full. Heav'n her Eridanus no... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1836 - 336 pages
...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 yet clear, though gentle yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. Heav'n her Eridanus no... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 602 pages
...flowing, and sonorous. Speaking of the river Thames: " 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'erflowing full." There cannot be a better... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1837 - 614 pages
...flowing, and sonorous. Speaking of the river Thames : " 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'erflowing full." There cannot be a better... | |
 | Stanhope Busby - English poetry - 1837 - 132 pages
...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 yet clear, though gentle yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. 77 pointed doggrel to which... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 pages
...for a century past has imitated, are generally known : O, could I flow like thee, and make thy stream Consulting the Virjrilian Lots, Sones VirgtUance, is a metho though gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing fnlL The lines are in themselves... | |
 | Joseph Taylor - Adventure and adventurers - 1838 - 672 pages
...strange, While his fair bosom is the world's exchange. O! conld I flow like thec, 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'erflowing full. The source of the Thames,... | |
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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. 
