 | William Davis (B.A.) - 1867 - 80 Seiten
...of a sigh.—Gray. 20. Oh, could I flow like thee I 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. Denham. 21. Every eye Glared lightning, and shot forth pernicious fire Among the accursed, that withered... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 Seiten
...THAMES— *« Bivers. 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...dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. Denham Cooper t Sill, 188. The time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames shall... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1868 - 828 Seiten
...Coopers Hill, Line 165. 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...dull; Strong without rage ; without o'erflowing full. Line 189. Actions of the last age are like almanacs of the last year. The Saffiy. A Tragedy. But whither... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 Seiten
...DENHAM. 1615-1668. f~\ COULD I flow like thee, and make thy stream ^-* My great example, as it is my theme ! Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet...without rage ; without o'erflowing full. Cooper's Hill. Line 189. Actions of the last age are like Almanacs of the last year. The Sophy. A Tragedy. * Nympha... | |
 | Vermont Historical Society - 1915 - 336 Seiten
...Denham, to another river: "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...; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full." One Thous.ir,;! .MOTHDUOH .H JnorrmY ari) lo iri'jl)i?.oirl M cnofl January 1, GEORGE F. IIOUGHTON.... | |
 | Horace - 2002 - 330 Seiten
...quatrain in Cooper's Ml: "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...dull; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing, full." Denham's IMAGE of aesthetic doctrine (1642) had a pervasive influence on all subsequent eighteenth-century... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 Seiten
...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...dull, Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. Johnson's comment makes clear the principles underlying praise of Denham from the Restoration until... | |
 | 1894 - 926 Seiten
...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...; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full." Each generation has its own authorities and teachers. I quote Tennyson now ; fifty years ago I thought... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 Seiten
...is the world's exchange. 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...dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full. Heaven her Eridanus no more shall boast, Whose fame in thine, like lesser currents lost. Thy nobler... | |
 | Tom Turner - 1996 - 262 Seiten
...inspire future planners: O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great exemplar as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear; though gentle, yet...dull; Strong without rage; without o'erflowing, full. METAPHORICAL GARDENS Were Europe sinking beneath the waves, like Atlantis, and only two gardens could... | |
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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'erflowing full. 
