 | D. M. R. Bentley - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 376 pages
...the smooth Stream in smoother Numbers flows"), but also from the famous passage in Cooper's Hill- "O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream / My great example, as it is my theme!"(77) - which John Hollander sees as the locus classicus of "the idea that lines of verse should... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...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...theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full. Heaven her Eridanus no more shall boast,... | |
 | Chris Fitter - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 358 pages
...moralise, prising out innate structures of meaning from landscape in the hieroglyphic tradition: O could I flow like thee and make thy stream My great...my theme : Though deep yet clear, though gentle yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full.267 Denham's 'More boundless in my fancie than... | |
 | Tom Turner - Architecture - 1996 - 262 pages
...Thames, to inspire future planners: O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great exemplar as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear; though gentle, yet not dull; Strong without rage; without o'erflowing, full. METAPHORICAL GARDENS Were Europe sinking... | |
 | Timothy J. Reiss - History - 1997 - 264 pages
...unity. '6 It explains John Denham's demand, apostrophizing the Thames, that form not obstruct idea: 'O 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,... | |
 | Douglas R. McGaughey - Philosophy - 1997 - 560 pages
...(the vehicle) to illustrate his point: O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great exemplar as it is my theme. Though deep, yet clear; though gentle, yet not dull; Strong without rage; without o'erflowing, full.22 18 Richards, Philosophy of Rhetoric, p.... | |
 | Claude J. Summers, Ted-Larry Pebworth - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 291 pages
...type of careful balance of parallelism and antithesis he and Waller brought to the heroic couplet: O 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. (189-92) 14. O Hehir glosses this line in... | |
 | Michel Conan - Gardens - 1999 - 252 pages
...Denham's paean to the Thames glimpsed in the English landscape, the emblem of true majesty and power: O 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/' 3 The Oxford Book of Garden Verse, ed.John... | |
 | Charles Birch - Biology - 1999 - 178 pages
...certainty but clarity. Certainty is a fake. Conviction with clarity is for real — deep yet clear: Oh, could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My...is my theme! Though deep, yet clear; though gentle, not yet dull; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. John Denham, Cooper's Hill WHAT IS LIFE?... | |
 | David S. Wilkinson - Science - 2000 - 292 pages
...diffusion coefficient of zinc vapour through argon. Chapter 8 Mass transport in the presence of convection Oh, could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Sir John Denham, Cooper's Hill In this chapter we continue our study of mass transfer in fluids by... | |
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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. 
