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. A view of society and manners in Italy - 第 116 頁John Moore, Robert Anderson 著 - 1820完整檢視 - 關於此書
| Great Britain - 1804 - 716 頁
...Dryden has commended them, almost every writer for a century past has imitated, are generally known : " 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 net dull ; " Strong without rage, without... | |
| Thomas Best - 1804 - 208 頁
...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 is the world's exchange. The second river of note is the Severn, which has its beginning in Plinilimmon-hill, in Montgomeryshire,... | |
| 1806 - 408 頁
...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 ! Tho' deep, yet clear; tho' gentle, yet not dull ; Strong, without rage, without o'erflowing,... | |
| Charles Brockden Brown - 1806 - 498 頁
...were not in the first printed edition of the poem ; though the general sentiment is there. О could 1 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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 336 頁
...Dryden has commended them, almost every writer for a century past has imitated, are generally known : " O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream " My great exampTe, as it is my theme ! " Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull; " Strong without... | |
| Edmund Spenser - 1807 - 446 頁
...deserts, woods in cities plants. 186 So that to us no thing, no place is strange, While his fair hosom is the world's exchange. O could I flow like thee ! and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme; 190 Tho' deep yet clear, tlio' gentle yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 頁
...moon, Making night hideous." Shaks. t Flow, Welsted, flow I &c.l Parody on Denham,i Cooper's Hill ; « O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme; Thongh deep, yet clear ; thongh gentle, yet not dull: Strong without rage; without overflowing... | |
| Thomas Best - 1807 - 208 頁
...wealth where 'tis, bestows it where it wants, Cities in deserts, woods in cities, plants. So tliat to us no thing, no place, is strange, "While his fair bosom is the world's exchange. The second nver of note is the Severn, \vhich has its beginning in Plimlimmon-hill, in Montgomeryshire,... | |
| English poetry - 1809 - 308 頁
...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 ! Tho' deep, yet clear; tho' gentle, yet not dull; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing... | |
| British poets - 1809 - 512 頁
...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 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... | |
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