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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. "
The rudiments of English grammar - Page 57
by T. Bowen - 1799
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Lives of the most eminent English poets, with critical ..., Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 468 pages
...a century past has imitated, are generally known : " 0 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." " The lines are in...
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Johnson's Lives of the British poets completed by W. Hazlitt, Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 356 pages
...a century past has imitated, are generally known : "Oh, could I flow liketb.ee, 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." The lines are in .themselves...
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The Rhyme and Reason of Country Life, Or, Selections from Fields Old and New

Susan Fenimore Cooper - Country life - 1854 - 482 pages
...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 ! Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rnge ; without o'erflowiug, full. Heaven her Eridanus...
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The Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Volume 3

Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 480 pages
...flowing, and sonorous. Speaking of the river Thames :— " 0 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." There cannot be a better...
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A Critical History of English Literature: The Restoration to 1800, Volume 3

David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...for praise in "Cooper's Hill" the following four lines: 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. Johnson's comment makes...
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The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 3, The Renaissance

George Alexander Kennedy, Glyn P. Norton - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 790 pages
...apostrophized the Thames, that form not obstruct thought: '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 ore-flowing full.1 Depth with clarity,...
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The Meaning of Literature

Timothy J. Reiss - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 412 pages
...nineteenth. In them he offered the Thames as a model: 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 ore-flowing full. (11. 189-92) The poem had...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 73

American essays - 1894 - 926 pages
...to the river, yon may quote Denham and say : — " Oh, oonld 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." Each generation has its...
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The Third Kind of Knowledge: Memoirs & Selected Writings

Robert Fitzgerald - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 332 pages
...Dryden was fond of quoting Denham's lines on the Thames: 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 ore-flowing full. He was also fond of alluding...
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Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation

John Guillory - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1993 - 422 pages
...tide, perhaps the following neoclassic locus classicus: O could I flo 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 oreflowing full. Denham reinscribes the ancient...
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