 | British empire - 1847 - 812 pages
...does not recollect the charming lines with which Denham describes the " silver river T" — " Oh ! 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." Immediately at your feet is the plain of... | |
 | James Cornwell - 1847 - 328 pages
...Forest, and Denlmm's Cooper's Hill, may especially be mentioned. The last describes it thus :— " 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 Anciently Tgdiuglon, because the tide... | |
 | John Hunter - English language - 1848 - 224 pages
...melancholy at whose bidding the pleasures the business the ambition of the present moment fade and disappear O could I flow like thee and make thy stream My great...is my theme Though deep yet clear though gentle yet not dull Strong without rage without o'erflowing full The country on being conquered by Joshua was... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 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...theme ; Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full ; Heaven her Eridanus no more shall boast,... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1886 - 664 pages
...Correspondents, Ac. CONTRIBUTIONS TO A BISTORT OP ТЛЕ THAMES. 4 «^ л ^ BOOK I. PRIMEVAL AND PROMISCUOUS. 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. Sir J, Denham. CHAPTER I. Among the "chief... | |
 | John Fisher Murray - Thames River - 1849 - 388 pages
...morality too frequent, and the sentiments sometimes such as will not bear a rigorous inquiry. " The few verses, which, since Dryden has commended them, almost...imitated, are generally known: • O could I flow like thoe, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme : Though deep, yet clear, though gentle,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1850 - 602 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." There cannot be a better specimen of the... | |
 | Peter Cunningham - 1851 - 382 pages
...Spenser calls it " The silver-streaming Thames." Denham has sung its praises in some noble couplets — " 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, withont o'erflowing full." And Pope described its banks with the accuracy... | |
 | William Draper Swan - Readers - 1851 - 442 pages
...East so much wit, and mirth, and spleen about you, There is no living with thee, nor without thee. O, could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My...theme : Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not duJZ ; Strong, without rage ; without o'erflowing, full. 'Tis hard to say if greater want of skill... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1851 - 644 pages
...and ample canal realizes, and more than realizes, what the poet has said of the River Thames : — " 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." But, Gentlemen, there are other things about... | |
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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. 
