 | Anniversary calendar - 1832 - Liczba stron: 548
...; Finds wealth where 'tis, bestows it where it wants, Cities in deserts, woods in cities plants. 0 could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great...theme ! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'erflowingfnll. — Denham. MY soul, time posts away, And thou,... | |
 | William Drummond, Peter Cunningham - 1833 - Liczba stron: 354
...bears the happier share. Of this Johnson says, the numbers are musical, and the thoughts are just. O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great...; Strong without rage; without o'erflowing, full.* WALLER TO VANDYKE. Rare Artisan, whose pencil moves Not our delights alone, but loves : From thy shop... | |
 | William Drummond, Peter Cunningham - 1833 - Liczba stron: 358
...bears the happier share. Of this Johnson says, the numbers are musical, and the thoughts are just. O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great...; Strong without rage; without o'erflowing, full.* WALLER TO VANDYKE. Rare Artisan, whose pencil moves Not our delights alone, but loves : From thy shop... | |
 | William Drummond, Peter Cunningham - 1833 - Liczba stron: 354
...bears the happier share. Of this Johnson says, the numbers are musical, and the thoughts are just. O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great...theme ! Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage; without o'erflowiug, full.* WALLER TO VANDYKE. Rare Artisan, whose... | |
 | George Alexander Kennedy, Glyn P. Norton - 1989 - Liczba stron: 790
...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...theme! / Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, / Strong without rage, without ore-flowing full.1 Depth with clarity, variety without confusion,... | |
 | John Hollander - 1990 - Liczba stron: 280
...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... | |
 | Timothy J. Reiss - 1992 - Liczba stron: 412
...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...theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without ore-flowing full. (11. 189-92) The poem had first appeared in... | |
 | D. M. R. Bentley - 1992 - Liczba stron: 341
...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...theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without ore-flowing full.45 To make poetry like reality, to imitate... | |
 | 1894 - Liczba stron: 926
...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...; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full." Each generation has its own authorities and teachers. I quote Tennyson now ; fifty years ago I thought... | |
 | Robert Fitzgerald - 1993 - Liczba stron: 332
...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...theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without ore-flowing full. He was also fond of alluding to Waller as... | |
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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. 
