 | 1840 - 560 pages
...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.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 pages
...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 - 818 pages
...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 - 742 pages
...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 - 1989 - 790 pages
...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 - 1990 - 280 pages
...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 - 412 pages
...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 - 341 pages
...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 - 332 pages
...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 - 926 pages
...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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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. 
