...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 ! [* Originally: And though his clearer sand no golden veins Like Tagus or Pactolus stream contains—...

...plants. So that to us no thing, no place, is strange, While his fair bosom is the world's Exchange. 0, could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme ! [* Originally : And though his clearer snnd nn golden veins Like Tagua or Pactolus stream contains—...

...the fairest maid on her native coast Is the Las» of Lytham Hall." AC &c. LONDON. (FROM MHJTHWARK.) " O 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, full." DEXIIAM. THE...

...and hia own poetry was once celebrated : Oh. could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My blight example, as it is my theme, Though deep, yet clear...dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. Johnson, while he highly extols these lines, truly observes, that " most of the words thus artfully...

...century past has imitated, are generally known: - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream Mr great example, as it is my theme : Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'crflowing full.' "The lines are in themselves not perfect,...

...metaphor from the ship to the river, yon may quote Denhani and say : — " Oh, could I flow like tbee, and make thy stream My great example as it is my theme...; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full." Each generation has its own authorities and teachers. I quote Tennyson now ; fifty years ago I thought...

...Denham and say : — »•'Oh, could I flo w like thee, and make thy stream My great example as it U ray 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...

...aus Denhams Gedicht Cooper's Hill (London 1642, endgültige Version 16))). Sie lauten im Original: O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great...dull; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. Die Übersetzung der Verse stammt von Chr. Fr. Weichmann, vgl. Poesie der Niedersachsen, Bd. l, S....

...laid out in the improvement and maintenance of the navigation. CHAPTER LXI. THE RIVER THAMES. " Oh, could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great...example, as it is my theme ! Though deep, yet clear ; th ugh gentle, yet not dull Strong without rage ; without o'erflowing full."—SIR JOHX DENMAM. The...

...explains John Denham's requirement, as he apostrophized the Thames, that form not obstruct thought: ‘0 could I flow like thee, and make thy stream / My great...theme! / Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, / Strong without rage, without ore-flowing full.' Depth with clarity, variety without confusion,...