 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 484 страници
...sentiments sometimes such as will not bear a rigorous enquiry. The four verses, which, since 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 ! Though deep,... | |
 | 1828 - 746 страници
...does not recollect the charming lines with which Denham describes the “silver river :“— “Oh! could I flow lik¿e 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'erflowiDg fulL Immediately at your... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 450 страници
...sentiments sometimes such as will not bear a rigorous enquiry. The four verses, which, since'*'Dryden has commended them, almost every writer for a century...imitated, are generally known: " 0 could I flow like thcc, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear; though gentle,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 484 страници
...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 страници
...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 - 412 страници
...thing of Ward's. IMITATIONS. Welsted, flow ! # Parody on Denham, Ver. 169. Flow, 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 страници
...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!".... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 страници
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 страници
...sentiments, sometimes, such as will not bear a rigorous inquiry. The four verses, which, since 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 ! Though deep,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 страници
...sentiments sometimes such as will not bear a rigourous inquiry. The four verses, which, since 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 ! Though deep,... | |
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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. 
