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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. "
American Monthly Knickerbocker - Page 335
1840
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Poems of Nation, Anthems of Empire: English Verse in the Long Eighteenth Century

Suvir Kaul - History - 2000 - 358 pages
...plants. So that to us no thing, no place is strange, While his fair bosom is the worlds exchange. O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Thongh deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong trilhon! rage, nnthont ore-flowing full...
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Fables of Modernity: Literature and Culture in the English Eighteenth Century

Laura Brown - History - 2001 - 292 pages
...period's preeminent example of the neoclassical notion of concordia discors—unity in difference: O, could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great...as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear; though gende, yet not dull; Strong widiout rage; without o'erflowing, full. (11. 189-192) No torrents here....
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Image Government: Monarchical Metamorphoses in English Literature and Art ...

T. R. Langley - Art - 2001 - 264 pages
...Augustus.72 'O could I flow like thee', had been Denham's wish, introducing his most memorable of couplets: O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great...example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear and so on.73 And so William: wish become achievement. He flows, quite clearly, just so. Centrally so,...
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Mediating Order and Chaos: The Water-cycle in the Complex Adaptive Systems ...

Rodney Farnsworth - Art - 2001 - 360 pages
...poet seeks a model for his 'neo,Classical rhythms' in the stately. 'disciplined' flow of the Thames: Oh could I flow like thee. and make thy stream My great example. as it is my theme! lhough deep. vet clear. though gentle. vet not dulL Strong without rage. without ore,flowing full lI...
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The Cambridge History of the English Language, Volume 3

Richard M. Hogg, Norman Francis Blake, Roger Lass, R. W. Burchfield - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1992 - 812 pages
...century that followed. (It is still quoted with approval in Priestley 1777: 299.) (70) t )h could 1 flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! 598 Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full...
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Genre and Ethics: The Education of an Eighteenth-century Critic

Edward Tomarken - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 292 pages
...contrasts with the extremes of the human world. The famous final lines now take on an added resonance: 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 o'erflowing full. (Oxford, 1:1112-113) Although often cited...
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Johnson, Writing, and Memory

Greg Clingham - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 238 pages
...and Tate are the famous lines from Denham's Cooper's Hill and Johnson's comments on the passage: 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. (lines 189-93)" Johnson's comment on the passage...
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The Concise Encyclopedia of the Revolutions and Wars of England, Scotland ...

Stephen C. Manganiello - History - 2004 - 632 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'erflowing full. DERBY, COUNTESS OF, SEE STANLEY, CHARLOTTE...
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Essays On Nima Yushij: Animating Modernism In Persian Poetry

Aḥmad Karīmī Ḥakkāk, Kamran Talattof - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 279 pages
...banks confin'd, But free, and common, as the Sea or Wind. . . . O could I flow like thee, and make my 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. Thus, as Toliver suggests, Denham's river...
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英國文學史略

Benjamin Ifor Evans - English literature - 2006 - 520 pages
...mAPfl^^J ° ffeiflMAMWJUm^^if ft ' 8i^^ A IRS ° : ffi oj m&m£ft%m <J*V6UJ> ('Cooper's Hill') - 189-92 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'erflowing, full. (John Dryden, 163 1-1700) 2.-$ if : 53 °...
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