 | John Mason Good - 1819 - Страниц: 822
...which have excited the most attention arc the following in a description of the river Ti limes: -' O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great...theme! Tho' deep, yet clear; tho' gentle, yet not dull ; Stronz without rage; without o'erflowinz, full." ОГ these lines Dr. Johnson says: " So much meaning... | |
 | John Moore - 1820 - Страниц: 476
...plants, So that, to us, no thing, no place is strange, . . While his fair bosom 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 not d«H j Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - Страниц: 466
...has commended them, almost every writer for a century past has imitated, are generally known. • " 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - Страниц: 476
...Dryden has commended them, almost every writer for a century past has imitated, are generally known : O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme ' X * By Garth, in his " Poem on Claremont," and by Pope in his " Windsor Forest." Though deep, yet... | |
 | George Alexander Kennedy, Glyn P. Norton - 1989 - Страниц: 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 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 - Страниц: 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... | |
 | Daniel Defoe, Anthony J. Coulson - 1991 - Страниц: 444
...call to mind those two excellent lines of Sir John Dcnham, in his poem, call'd Cooper's Hill, viz. Tho' Deep, yet Clear, tho' Gentle, yet not Dull, Strong without Rage, without o'crflowing full. From Stanes I turn'd S. and SE to Chertsey, another market-town, and where... | |
 | D. M. R. Bentley - 1992 - Страниц: 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 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 - Страниц: 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 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 - Страниц: 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 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. 
