 | English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...'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 is the world's...make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme ! Tho' deep, yet clear; tho' gentle, yet not dull; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full; Heav'n... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 512 pages
...'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 is the world's exchange. O could 1 flow like thee ; and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme; Though deep, yet clear... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...thing, no place is strange, While his fair bosom is the world's exchange. 0 rould 1 flow like thre, | G u n ! Iho' deep, yet clear; tho' gentle, yet not dull : Strong without rage, without o'erflowcing full.... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...'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 is the world's...theme ! Though deep, yet clear; though gentle, yet not dull; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. Heaven her Erklanus no more shall boast; Whose... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 pages
...is, 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 is the world's...make thy stream my great example, as it is my theme; tbo' deep yet clear, tho' gentle yet not dull ; strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. Heav'n... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 pages
...is, 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 is the world's...make thy stream my great example, as it is my theme; tho' deep yet clear, tho' gentle yet not dull ; strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. /Jeav'n... | |
 | Henry Headley - English poetry - 1810 - 238 pages
...thine only curse; Secure then of thy merit, thou didst hate That servile base dependence upon Fate ; 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. Cooper's Hill. See an excellent parody... | |
 | Henry Headley - English poetry - 1810 - 236 pages
...thine onlj curse; Secure then of thy merit, thou didst hate That servile base dependence upon Fate ; O could I flow like thee ! and make thy stream My great examples as it is my theme ; Though deep, yet clear; though gentle, yet not dull ; . Strong, without... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pages
...generally known : * By Garth, in his " Poem on Claremout ;" Jnxl by Pope, ia hit " Windsor Forest." H. " O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream " My...it is my theme ! " Though deep, yet clear ; though gentlu, yet not dull ; " Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full." The lines are in themselves... | |
 | Samuel Owen - Thames River (England) - 1811 - 416 pages
...bestows it where it wants ; Cities in deserts, woods in cities plants ; So that to UE, nothing, no place is strange, While his fair bosom is the world's exchange. O could I flow like thee, and make my stream My great example as it is my theme ! INTRODUCTION. Though deep yet clear ; though gentle... | |
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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. 
