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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. "
The Lives of the English Poets: cowley. Denham. Milton. Butler. Rochester ... - Sivu 50
tekijä(t) Samuel Johnson - 1858
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Nide 16

1840 - 560 sivua
...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 DENMAN. TALE FOURTH....

Lives of the English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works ; And ...

Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 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...

The Evergreen, Nide 1

1840 - 818 sivua
...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...

The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 742 sivua
...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,...

The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 3, The Renaissance

George Alexander Kennedy, Glyn P. Norton - 1989 - 790 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,...
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Melodious Guile: Fictive Pattern in Poetic Language

John Hollander - 1990 - 280 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...
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The Meaning of Literature

Timothy J. Reiss - 1992 - 412 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...
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The Gay]grey Moose: Essays on the Ecologies and Mythologies of Canadian ...

D. M. R. Bentley - 1992 - 341 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...
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The Third Kind of Knowledge: Memoirs & Selected Writings

Robert Fitzgerald - 1993 - 332 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...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Nide 73

1894 - 926 sivua
...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...




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