| 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... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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 °... | |
| |