 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1842 - 716 páginas
...long, the morality too frequent, and the sentiments sometimes such as will not bear a rigorous inquiry. The four verses, which, since Dryden has commended...generally known : O, could I flow like thee, and make [hy stream My great example, ал it is my theme ! Thnuffli ilnep, yet clear ; (hough ift- ntle, yet... | |
 | William Finden, Edward Francis Finden, William Beattie, William Henry Bartlett - 1842 - 338 páginas
...fairest maid on her native coast Is the Lass of Lytham Hall." ¿c. ate. LONDON. (FROM bouxHWARK.) " О could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example as it is my theme; Though deep, yet buoyant, — gentle, yet not dull, — Strong, without rage, — without o'erflowing,... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 páginas
...plants ; So that to us no thing, no place, is strange, While his fair bosom is the world's exchange. 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.2... | |
 | 1848
...and every one who has seen the river at Windsor will perceive that they are equally truthful : — " O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme i Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full."... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 442 páginas
...truth he looked IMITATIONS. Ver. 169. Flow, Welsted, flow ! $c.] Parody on Denham, Cooper's If ill : " O could I flow like 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, full!"... | |
 | George Alexander Kennedy, Glyn P. Norton - 1989 - 790 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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.... | |
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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. 
