 | English poetry - 1856 - 754 pages
...letn ipla^ ift, ber nii^t un* gtborte, 3^rf*5ner fflufen ift ber OHarft ber (Srbe. 178 JOHN DENHAM. O could I flow like thee ! and make thy stream My...theme ; Though deep, yet clear , though gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. Heav'n her Eridanus no more shall boast,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 604 pages
...Hill,' has been admired and imitated, as full, flowing, and sonorous. Speaking of the river Thames : " O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great...my theme ; Though deep yet clear, though gentle yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full." • The poet Vida describes the last groan... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...drink but I ? Why, man of morals, tell me why ? SIR JOHN DENHAM. 1615-1668. Cooper's Hill. Line 189. O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great...theme ! Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage ; without o'erflowing full. The Sophy. A Tragedy. Actions of the last... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1857 - 610 pages
...Hill,' has been admired and imitated, as full, flowing, and sonorous. Speaking of the river Thames : " 0 could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great...my theme ; Though deep yet clear, though gentle yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'erSowing full." There cannot be a better specimen of the swift... | |
 | Edmund Waller - English poetry - 1857 - 378 pages
...well-known lines on the Thames are rhetorical and forcible, but not, we think, highly poetical: — " Oh, could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great...theme ! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full." The poem closes with another river- picture,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1859 - 384 pages
...moon, Making night hideous.' BHAKSP. M9 Flaw, Welsted, flaw! &c.] Parody on Denham, Cooper's Hill: ' 0 could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great...theme; Though deep, yet clear; though gentle, yet not dull: Strong without rage; without o'erflowing fulll ' Embrace, embrace, my sons ! be foes no more... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1859 - 512 pages
...that to us no thing, no place is strange, While his fair bosom is the world's exchange. Oh, could 1 flow like thee ! and make thy stream My great example,...theme : Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dull ; Strong, without rage ; without o'erflowing, full.' Denham. THE COMMON LOT.* ONCE in the... | |
 | Sir Arthur Helps - Conduct of life - 1860 - 296 pages
...plants. So that to us no thing, no place, is strange, While his fair bosom is the world's exchange. O could I flow like thee ! and make thy stream My...my theme ; Though deep yet clear, though gentle yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowyig full." The lines sound somewhat ironical, do they... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1860 - 672 pages
...once of power and peace, well might the poet address to the Thames the well-known apostrophe : Oh ! could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great...theme : Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage ; without o'erflowing full. Truly, indeed, may it be said that rivers... | |
 | Robert Sullivan - 1861 - 532 pages
...much wit, and mirth, and spleen about thee, There is no living with thee, nor without thee. 24. Oh, could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great...theme: Though deep, yet clear; though gentle, yet not dull; Strong, without rage; without o'erflowing, full. 1 25. Tis hard to say if greater want of... | |
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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. 
