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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. "
Select Beauties of Ancient English Poetry - Página 75
por Henry Headley - 1810
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The Poems of William Drummond of Hawthornden: With Life, by Peter Cunningham

William Drummond, Peter Cunningham - 1833 - 354 páginas
...bears the happier share. Of this Johnson says, the numbers are musical, and the thoughts are just. O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great...; Strong without rage; without o'erflowing, full.* WALLER TO VANDYKE. Rare Artisan, whose pencil moves Not our delights alone, but loves : From thy shop...
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The Poems of William Drummond of Hawthornden: With Life, by Peter Cunningham

William Drummond, Peter Cunningham - 1833 - 354 páginas
...bears the happier share. Of this Johnson says, the numbers are musical, and the thoughts are just. 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'erflowiug, full.* WALLER TO VANDYKE. Rare Artisan, whose...
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Narrative of a Journey to the Falls of the Cavery: With an Historical and ...

H. Jervis - 1834 - 192 páginas
...the vallies bring A welcome succour ', with a liberal hand Bestowing plenty to a burning land. " Oh, could I flow like thee, and make thy stream " My great example, as it is my theme !" DENHAM. THE Cavery rises in the mountains which divide the Southern Peninsula of India, and after...
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The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 3, The Renaissance

George Alexander Kennedy, Glyn P. Norton - 1989 - 790 páginas
...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...theme! / Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, / Strong without rage, without ore-flowing full.1 Depth with clarity, variety without confusion,...
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Melodious Guile: Fictive Pattern in Poetic Language

John Hollander - 1990 - 280 páginas
...later 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...
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The Gay]grey Moose: Essays on the Ecologies and Mythologies of Canadian ...

D. M. R. Bentley - 1992 - 341 páginas
...Hill. 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...theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without ore-flowing full.45 To make poetry like reality, to imitate...
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The Meaning of Literature

Timothy J. Reiss - 1992 - 412 páginas
...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...theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without ore-flowing full. (11. 189-92) The poem had first appeared in...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volumen73

1894 - 926 páginas
...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...; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full." Each generation has its own authorities and teachers. I quote Tennyson now ; fifty years ago I thought...
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The Third Kind of Knowledge: Memoirs & Selected Writings

Robert Fitzgerald - 1993 - 332 páginas
...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...theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without ore-flowing full. He was also fond of alluding to Waller as...
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Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation

John Guillory - 1993 - 422 páginas
...the Mersey emulates a "classic" tide, perhaps the following neoclassic locus classicus: O could I flo like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as...theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull Strong without rage, without oreflowing full. Denham reinscribes the ancient Ciceronian topos,...
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