 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 502 sivua
...sentiments sometimes such as will not bear a rigorous inquiry. The four verses, which, since Dryden has commended them, almost every writer for a century past has imitated, are generally known: O could I Dow like thee, and make thy stream My grenl example, as it is my theme ! Though deep, yet... | |
 | 1840
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840
...sometimes such as will not bear a rigorous inquiry. The four verses, which, since Dryden has tifnmended | t : O, could I flAw like theft, and make thy stream My great example, PS il is my theme ! Though deep,... | |
 | George Alexander Kennedy, Glyn P. Norton, Hugh Barr Nisbet, Marshall Brown, Claude Julien Rawson, Alastair J. Minnis, Ian Richard Johnson, Rafey Habib, Christa Knellwolf, Raman Selden, A. Walton Litz, Louis Menand, Lawrence Rainey, Christopher Norris, Christa Knellwolf King - 1989 - 758 sivua
...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 Depth with clarity,... | |
 | John Hollander - 1988 - 262 sivua
...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 - 395 sivua
...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. (11. 189-92) The... | |
 | D. M. R. Bentley - 1992 - 328 sivua
...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 To make poetry... | |
 | Robert Fitzgerald - 1993 - 279 sivua
...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. He was also fond... | |
 | 1894
...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." Each generation... | |
 | John Guillory, Professor John Guillory - 1993 - 392 sivua
...the Mersey emulates a "classic" 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... | |
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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. 
