| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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