 | John Moore - 1803 - 500 страници
...plants. So that, to us, no thing, no place is ftrange, While his fair bofom is the world's exchange. O could I flow like thee, and make thy ftream My great...dull; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. Heaven her Eridanus no more fhall boaft, Whofe fame in thine, like lefler current's loft. You will... | |
 | Sir John Carr - 1803 - 302 страници
...suffer much by a comparison with the Thames, so finely described by sir John Denham — Though deep, yet clear, though gentle yet not dull: Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. The Seine is narrow, and very dirty; its waters, which are finely filtrated when drawn from the fountains... | |
 | Virgil - 1803 - 408 страници
...few who make verses, have observed the sweetness of these two lines in Cooper's Hill : Though deep, yet clear; though gentle, yet not dull; Strong without rage; without o'erflowing, full — s and there are yet fewer who can find the reason of that sweetness. I have given it to some of... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 страници
...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, yet clear ; though gentle, yet net dull ; " Strong without rage, without o'crflo*ing full." The lines are in themselves not perfect... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 482 страници
...* By Garth, in his « Poem on Clarcmont j" and by Pope, in *is " Windfor Foreft." H. " Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dull ; " Strong...metaphorically on the other ; and if there be any language that does not exprefs intellectual operations by material images, into that language they cannot be... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 336 страници
...imitated, are generally known : " O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream " My great examp'e, as it is my theme ! " Though deep, yet clear, though...rage, without o'erflowing full." The lines are in fhemselves not perfect; for most af the words, thus artfully opposed, are to be unU3 derstood simply... | |
 | Charles Brockden Brown - 1806 - 498 страници
...of the poem ; though the general sentiment is there. О could I (low 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 shall bout; Her fame in thine, like lesser currents, lost; Thy nobler streams... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1806 - 788 страници
...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 страници
...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... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1807 - 446 страници
...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;... | |
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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. 
