| William Henry Merle - 1838 - 1034 páginas
...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, full."... | |
| Joseph Taylor - 1838 - 672 páginas
...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, as it is my theme. Though deep, yet clear; though gentle, yet not dull; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full.... | |
| Thomas Faulkner - 1839 - 482 páginas
...river. Rowe calls it " The King of the Floods,"and Denham characterises it in that celebrated passage, 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,... | |
| Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - 1840 - 566 páginas
...Gilde'en.the darkest clouds of deep despair. PASSAIC: A OKOUP OF P 0 EMS TOUCHING THAT RIVER. RY FLACCUI. 'Ou could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, H* it is my theme; Thongh deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Slrong without rage, without... | |
| 1840 - 560 páginas
...ball, The Retreat of Seventy-Six. 3S5 PASSAIC: A GROUP OF POEMS TOUCHING THAT RIVER. BY FLAC C 09. ' 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 not dull, Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full.1... | |
| 1840 - 818 páginas
...conceit. Speaking of the four sonorous and oft-praisec lines, also addressed to ' Father Thames,' 1 0 could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as ft is my theme ! Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dull : Strong without raf e ; without... | |
| 1840 - 566 páginas
...last. The Retreat of Seventy- Six. 335 PASSAIC: A 6ROUP OF POEMS TOUCHING THAT RIVER. BY FLACCC9. ' On could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, aa it is my theme ; Though deep, yet d«ar, though gentle, yet not dull, Stroug without rage, without... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1841 - 844 páginas
...plants. So that to us no thing, no place, is strange, While his fair bosom is the world's Exchange. 0, could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme ! [* Originally: And though his clearer sand no golden veins Like Tagus or Pactolus stream contains... | |
| William Finden, Edward Francis Finden, William Beattie, William Henry Bartlett - 1842 - 338 páginas
...fairest maid on her native coast Is the Lass of Lytham Hall." ¿c. ate. LONDON. (FROM bouxHWARK.) " О could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example as it is my theme; Though deep, yet buoyant, — gentle, yet not dull, — Strong, without rage, — without o'erflowing,... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 páginas
...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 example, as it is my theme ; Though deep yet clear, though gentle yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full.2... | |
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