| Choice poems - 1862 - 368 Seiten
...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'erflowing full. Joseph Addison. Born 1672. Died 1719. A HYMN. WHEN all thy mercies, O my God! My rising soul surveys,... | |
| Thomas Arnold - 1862 - 452 Seiten
...is the world-s exchange. O might I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme ! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet...dull, Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full." Of Pope's Windsor Forest, Johnson has remarked, " The design of Windsor Forest is evidently taken from... | |
| English poems - 1863 - 364 Seiten
...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'erflowing full. But his proud head the airy mountain hides Among the clouds ; his shoulders and his sides A shady mantle... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1863 - 388 Seiten
...Denham, Cooper's Hill: ' 0 could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear; though gentle, yet...dull; Strong without rage ; without o'erflowing full ! ' Embrace, embrace, my sons ! be foes no more ! 177 Nor glad vile poets with true critics' gore.... | |
| Francis Trevelyan Buckland - 1863 - 298 Seiten
...worthy of insertion : — " Oh, could I flow like thee and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme ; Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet...; Strong without rage ; without o'erflowing, full. " My eye descending from the hill surveys Where Thames among the wanton valleys strays : Thames, the... | |
| 1863 - 362 Seiten
...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'erflowing full. But his proud head the airy mountain hides Among the clouds ; his shoulders and his sides A shady mantle... | |
| John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 Seiten
...JOHN DENHAM. 1615-1668. 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...without rage ; without o'erflowing full. Cooper's Hill. Line 189. Actions of the last age are like Almanacs of the last year. The Sophy. A Tragtdy. THOMAS... | |
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 252 Seiten
...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...dull ; Strong without rage ; without o'erflowing fulL EDMUND WALLEE: 1605-1687. Waller figured on the popular side in the Long Parliament, but afterwards... | |
| Frederick Saunders - 1866 - 412 Seiten
...poetic inspiration : — Oh ! could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme ! Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet...; Strong without rage ; without o'erflowing, full ! ANDREW MARVELL, the friend of Milton, wrote these glowing lines On a Drop of Dew : — See how the... | |
| Hubert Ashton Holden - 1866 - 726 Seiten
...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'erflowing full. 1027 But his proud head the airy mountain hides among the clouds ; his shoulders and his sides a shady... | |
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