 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 pages
...the morality too frequent, and the sentiments sometimes such as will not bear a rigourous inquiry. The four verses, which, since Dryden has commended...theme ! Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. The lines are in themselves not perfect;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 504 pages
...the morality too frequent, and the sentiments, sometimes, such as will not bear a rigorous inquiry. The four verses, which, since Dryden has commended...theme ! Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. The lines, are, in themselves, not perfect... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1826 - 430 pages
...long, the morality too frequent, and the sentiments sometimes such as will not bear a rigorons inquiry. The four verses, which, since Dryden has commended...my theme! Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yetnotdull; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. The lines are in themselves not perfect... | |
 | Horace Wellbeloved - London (England) - 1826 - 138 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 great...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,... | |
 | Benjamin Humphrey Smart - Elocution - 1826 - 242 pages
...consider that he shall 6ne day be old, and remember, when he is old, that he has once been young. 8. 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. 9. Pleasures — are ever in our hands or... | |
 | English poetry - 1826 - 300 pages
...plants. So that to us no thing, no place is strange, While his fair bosom is the world's exchange. 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. Heaven her Eridanus no more shall boast,... | |
 | George Lewis Smyth - London (England) - 1826 - 556 pages
...plants. So that to us no thing, no place is strange, While his fair bosom js the world's exchange. 0 could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great...as it is my theme ! Though deep, yet clear ; though gcptle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full." In the year 1647, the predicament... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...it; but he cheats by constitution, and overreaches by instinct. — Taller. DCCCXIX. (The Thames.) 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. No crime so bold, but would be understood... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 878 pages
...; a short essay. When a soldier was the theme, my name Was cot far off. Shakspeare. Cymbeline. О ! 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. Denham. Forcing the empty wits of children... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - Almanacs, English - 1832 - 548 pages
...; Finds wealth where 'tis, bestows it where it wants, Cities in deserts, woods in cities plants. 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'erflowingfnll. — Denham. MY soul, time posts away, And thou,... | |
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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. 
