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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. "
The Lives of the English Poets: cowley. Denham. Milton. Butler. Rochester ... - Page 50
by Samuel Johnson - 1858
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Poems and Translations: With the Sophy, a Tragedy

Sir John Denham - English drama - 1709 - 354 pages
...plants. So t|iat 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 Stream My great Example, as it is my Theme ! / Tho' deep, yet clear, tho' gentle, yet not dull 1 Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full....
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The Art of English Poetry Containing: Rules for making verses. A collection ...

Edward Bysshe - English language - 1710 - 620 pages
...employ'd in this fort of Poems, are cither Verfes of |o Syllables ; as, Oh '. could I flute like.thee, and make thy Stream My great Example, as it is my Theme-; TV dtsf, yet char ; thi gmtle, yet mt .dull • Strong, without Rage ; without o'trflowingf till. Denh....
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The First Part of Miscellany Poems: Containing Variety of New ..., Part 5

John Dryden, John Milton, William D'Avenant - 1716 - 418 pages
...plantr. So that to us no thing, no place is ft range, While his fair Bofom is the World's Exchange. O could I flow like thee, and make thy Stream My Great Example, as it is my Theam ! Though deep, yet clear, though genrle, yet not Strong withour Rage, withour e'er-flowing full....
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Miscellany Poems: Containing Variety of New Translations of the ..., Volume 5

John Dryden - Classical poetry - 1716 - 412 pages
...planrs. So that to us no thing, no place is ftrange, While his fair Bofom is the Wotld's Exchange. O could I flow like thee, and make thy Stream My Great Example, as it is my Theam ! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet nor dull, Strong without B.age, without o'er- flowing...
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The Complete Art of Poetry: In Six Parts, I. Of the Nature, Use ..., Volume 2

Charles Gildon - Criticism - 1718 - 490 pages
...Shores, Vifit» the World, and in his flying Tow'rs, Brings home to us, and makes both Indies our?. O could I flow like thee, and make thy Stream My great Example, as it is my Theam ! Tho' deep, yet clear ; tho' gentle, yet not dull ; Strong, without Rage ; without o'erflowing,...
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Poems and Translations;: With The Sophy, a Tragedy

Sir John Denham - 1719 - 258 pages
...planrs. 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 Stream My great Example, as it is my Tlieme ! Tho' deept yet clear ; tho' gentle, yet not dull ' Strong without Rage, without o'er-flowing...
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An Essay Upon the Civil Wars of France,: Extracted from Curious ..., Volume 8

Voltaire - Epic poetry - 1728 - 144 pages
...furpaffing them. • Sir John Denkam, in his Poem on Coo~ pers-Hill, fays to the Thames • 0 could 1 flow like thee, and make thy Stream • My great Example, as it is my Theme ; . TJM' deep, yet clear ; t ho' gentle, yet not dull ; Strong "without Rage, -without o'erflowing...
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The Art of Rhetoric Made Easy

John Holmes - Oratory - 1739 - 202 pages
...fuperas interritus extulit auras, &c . Virg. Mn. 5. See Sir John Detfbam on the River Thames — O could I flow like thee, and make thy Stream — My great Example, as it is my Theme ! — Tho' deep, yet clear j tho' gentle, yet not dull ; — Strong without Rage ; without o'erflowing,...
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The History of the Life and Times of Cardinal Wolsey: Prime Minister to King ...

Joseph Grove - Cardinals - 1742 - 494 pages
...plants : So that to us no Thing, no Place is Jirange, While his fair Ecjbm is the World's Exchange. 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' er-flowing full....
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Beispielsammlung zur Theorie und Literatur der Schönen Wissenschaften, Volume 3

Johann Joachim Eschenaburg - Literature - 1789 - 486 pages
...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 Stream My great Example , as it is nty Theme ! Though deep, yet clear ; tho gentle, yet not dull; Strong without Rage, without o'erflo...
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