 | John Moore - 1820 - 476 ページ
...bestows it where it wants., Cities in deserts, woods in cities plants, So that, to us, no thing, no place is strange, . . While his fair bosom is the world's...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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 466 ページ
...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... | |
 | John Moore, Robert Anderson - 1820 - 470 ページ
...bestows it where it wants. Cities in deserts, woods in cities plants, So that, to DS, no thing, no place is strange, While his fair bosom is the world's exchange....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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 476 ページ
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 470 ページ
...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... | |
 | Edward Polehampton - 1821 - 462 ページ
...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... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1821 - 768 ページ
...his flying tow'rs Brings home to us, and makes both Indies ours ; So that to us no 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 is my theme ! Though deep, yet clear; though... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1821 - 788 ページ
...tow'rs Brings home to us, and makes both Indies oui • ; So that to us no thing, no place is strangcr While his fair bosom is the world's exchange. O could I flow like thec, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme ! Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 328 ページ
...bestows it where it wants, Cities in deserts, woods in cities plants. So that to us no thing, no place is strange, While his fair bosom is the world's exchange....theme; Though deep, yet clear; though gentle, yet not dull; Strong without rage, without p'erflowing full; Heaven her Eridanus no more shall boast, Whose... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 294 ページ
...small pittance for pay. ^vV. Hill: IMITATIONS. Flout, Welsted, Jlow! &c.] Parody on Denham. Cooper's ' O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great...Strong without rage ; without o'erflowing, full!* 177 Embrace, embrace, my sons! be foes no more.'] VIRG. j£n. VI. , ' Ne tanta animis assneseite bella,... | |
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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. 
