 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.  Bell's Edition - Страница 191по John Bell - 1800Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | Thomas Faulkner - 1839 - 482 страници
...river. Rowe calls it " The King of the Floods,"and Denham characterises it in that celebrated passage, 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,... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - 1840 - 566 страници
...Gilde'en.the darkest clouds of deep despair. PASSAIC: A OKOUP OF P 0 EMS TOUCHING THAT RIVER. RY FLACCUI. 'Ou could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, H* it is my theme; Thongh deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Slrong without rage, without... | |
 | 1840 - 560 страници
...ball, The Retreat of Seventy-Six. 3S5 PASSAIC: A GROUP OF POEMS TOUCHING THAT RIVER. BY FLAC C 09. ' OH 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.1... | |
 | 1840 - 818 страници
...conceit. Speaking of the four sonorous and oft-praisec lines, also addressed to ' Father Thames,' 1 0 could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as ft is my theme ! Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dull : Strong without raf e ; without... | |
 | George Alexander Kennedy, Glyn P. Norton - 1989 - 790 страници
...explains John Denham's requirement, as he 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... | |
 | John Hollander - 1990 - 280 страници
...later on in the seventeenth century, Sir John Denham, with neoclassical tact, would merely predicate ("O could I flow like thee! and make thy stream / My great example, as it is my theme") and safely rhyme with the name of a synecdoche, rather than more powerfully and Spenserianly punning... | |
 | D. M. R. Bentley - 1992 - 341 страници
...Hill. It is a question that recalls John Denham's "famous apostrophe"44 to the Thames in Cooper's Hill: 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.45... | |
 | Timothy J. Reiss - 1992 - 412 страници
...throughout the eighteenth century and into the 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.... | |
 | Robert Fitzgerald - 1993 - 332 страници
...contemporaries, and in place of greater touchstones 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.... | |
 | 1894 - 926 страници
...January, 1893. the metaphor from the ship 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."... | |
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