 | 1886 - عدد الصفحات: 664
...Correspondents, Ac. CONTRIBUTIONS TO A BISTORT OP ТЛЕ THAMES. 4 «^ л ^ BOOK I. PRIMEVAL AND PROMISCUOUS. О could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great...dull, Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. Sir J, Denham. CHAPTER I. Among the "chief things of the ancient mountains aud the precious things... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1850 - عدد الصفحات: 602
...Hill,' has been admired and imitated, as full, flowing, and sonorous. Speaking of the river Thames : " O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great...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 lighming's... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - عدد الصفحات: 524
...and mirth, and spleen about you, There is no living with thee, nor without thee. 24. Oh, could I now like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as...theme: Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dull ; Strong, without rage; without o'erflowing, full.1 25. 'Tis hard to say if greater want of... | |
 | Peter Cunningham - 1851 - عدد الصفحات: 390
...Spenser calls it " The silver-streaming Thames." Denham has sung its praises in some noble couplets — " O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great...dull, Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full." And Pope described its banks with the accuracy of a Dutch painter in his ludicrous imitation of Spenser's... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1851 - عدد الصفحات: 644
...and ample canal realizes, and more than realizes, what the poet has said of the River Thames : — " O, could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My...dull, Strong without rage, without o'erflowing, full." But, Gentlemen, there are other things about this State of yours. You are here at the foot of Lake... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1851 - عدد الصفحات: 672
...and ample canal realizes, and more than realizes, what the poet has said of the River Thames : — " O, could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My...dull, Strong without rage, without o'erflowing, full." But, Gentlemen, there are other things about this State of yours. You are here at the foot of Lake... | |
 | American Sunday-School Union - 1851 - عدد الصفحات: 256
...the lines you repeated in your declamation this morning ? Gregory. They were from Denham : — " Oh, could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great...dull, Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full." Adler. Now please to give me the substance of these verses, as one might remember them, who had caught... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1851 - عدد الصفحات: 492
...does not recollect the charming lines with which Denham describes the " silver river ? " — " Oh ! could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great...dull, Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full." Immediately at your feet is the plain of Runnemede, where the contest between John and the Barons was... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1851 - عدد الصفحات: 642
...ample canal realizes, and more than realizes, what the poet has said of the River Thames : — " 0, could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great...dull, Strong without rage, without o'erflowing, full." But, Gentlemen, there are other things about this State of yours. You are here at the foot of Lake... | |
 | Peter Cunningham - 1851 - عدد الصفحات: 432
...silver-streaming Thames." Denham has sung its praises in some noble couplets — " O could I flow like thec, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my...dull, Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full." Sir John Denham. And Pope described its banks with the accuracy of a Dutch painter in his ludicrous... | |
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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. 
