| William Drummond, Peter Cunningham - 1833 - 358 pagine
...bears the happier share. Of this Johnson says, the numbers are musical, and the thoughts are just. 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,... | |
| H. Jervis - 1834 - 192 pagine
...the vallies bring A welcome succour ', with a liberal hand Bestowing plenty to a burning land. " Oh, could I flow like thee, and make thy stream " My great example, as it is my theme !" DENHAM. THE Cavery rises in the mountains which divide the Southern Peninsula of India,... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - 1836 - 336 pagine
...wealth where 'tis, bestows it where it wants, Cities in deserts, woods in cities, plants. So that to us no thing, no place, is strange, While his fair bosom...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... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - 1836 - 390 pagine
...wealth where 'tis, bestows it where it wants, Cities in deserts, woods in cities, plants. So that to us no thing, no place, is strange, While his fair bosom...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... | |
| Author of The young man's own book - 1836 - 336 pagine
...wealth where 'tis, bestows it where it wauls; Cities in deserts, woods in cities, plants. So that to us, no thing, no place is strange, While his fair bosom...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... | |
| Calvin Colton - 1836 - 372 pagine
...that what graces London must be a grace. Certainly no one will deny that these lines are a beauty. " 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,... | |
| the christians - 1836 - 426 pagine
...Visits the world, and in his flying towers Brings home to us, and makes both Indies ours; So that to us no 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 theme ! Though deep, yet... | |
| Stanhope Busby - 1837 - 132 pagine
...wealth where 'tis, bestows it where it wants, Cities in deserts, woods in cities plants. So that to us no thing, no place is strange, While his fair bosom...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... | |
| Stanhope Busby - 1837 - 136 pagine
...bestows it where it wants, Cities in deserts, woods in cities plants. So that to us no thing, no plaiŤ is strange, While his fair bosom is the world's exchange....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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 pagine
...Dryden has commended them, almost every writer for a century past has imitated, are generally known : ment, from which he was not dismissed without * Consulting the Virjrilian my theme ! Though deep, yet clear; though gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing... | |
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