 | the christians - 1836 - 426 pages
...thing, no place is strange, While his fair bosom is the world's exchange. О could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my...; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full." 170 THE CHRISTIAN'S PENNY MAGAZINE. 11 WHAT HAVE I TO DO WITH SAILORS >" John. Father, I want you to... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1836 - 390 pages
...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 example, as it is my...dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. Heav'n her Eridanus no more shall boast, Whose fame in thine, like lesser current, 's lost : Thy nobler... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1836 - 336 pages
...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 example, as it is my...dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. Heav'n her Eridanus no more shall boast, Whose fame in thine, like lesser current, 's lost : Thy nobler... | |
 | Author of The young man's own book - 1836 - 336 pages
...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 example, as it is my theme ! Though deep, yet clear; though gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'efflowing full. Heav'n her Eridanus no more shall boast,... | |
 | Stanhope Busby - 1837 - 132 pages
...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 example, as it is my...dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. 77 pointed doggrel to which the contentions of the period gave rise. But the most extraordinary work... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 618 pages
...imitated, as full, flowing, and sonorous. Speaking of the river Thames : " O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example as it is my theme...dull, Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full." There cannot be a better specimen of the swift cadence, than this line of Milton : " Light as the lightning's... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 602 pages
...imitated, as full, flowing, and sonorous. Speaking of the river Thames: " O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example as it is my theme;...dull, Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full." There cannot be a better specimen of the swift cadence, than this line of Milton: " Light as the lightning's... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 pages
...almost every writer for a century past has imitated, are generally known : O, could I flow like thee, dismissed without * Consulting the Virjrilian Lots, Sones VirgtUance, is a method of divination by not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing fnlL The lines are in themselves not perfect :... | |
 | Joseph Taylor - 1838 - 672 pages
...So that to us no thing, no place is strange, While his fair bosom is the world's exchange. O! conld I flow like thec, and make thy stream My great example,...Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. The source of the Thames, this first of British rivers, is derived from a copious spring called Thames... | |
 | William Henry Merle - 1838 - 1034 pages
...less guilty wealth t' explore, Search not his bottom, but surrey his shore. O could I flow like tliee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme ! Tho' Jeep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dull ; Strong, without rage ; without o'erflowing,... | |
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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. 
