...thought as carelessly as he lived, began a commendation of the sweetness and smoothness of two lines of Denham in praise of the Thames — — " Though...that there is a flow in the lines similar to that of the object described ; while the least attention to those stops, so necessary on the accented and antithetic...

...amiable in the world. Dignified, sincere, honest, modest, it resembles Denham's beautiful description of the Thames ; " Though deep, yet clear ; though...; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full."" By mingling with adventurers from various nations, in London, the purity of the genuine English character...

...thought as carelessly as he lived, began a commendation of the sweetness and smoothness of two lines ef Denham in praise of the Thames " Though deep yet clear,...without o'erflowing full :" and this commendation of Drynen's has been echoed by all subsequent writers, who have taken it for granted, that there is a...

...defined by Dean Swift, of nothing more than proper words in proper places, and flowing, like Denham's Thames, " Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle,...Strong without rage ; without o'erflowing, full." Which is itself an eminent example, and has been felicitously attributed to the diction of Plato. A...

...or permit, in both thought and style, cannot be better stated than in Deuham's two lines descriptive of the Thames — . % Though deep, yet clear ; though...dull, Strong without rage ; without o'erflowing, full. For these lines, in their present application, though they are the production of an English poet, I...

...it cost me much labour to make it so." These expressions recall Denham's often cited lines on Father Thames : — " Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle,...; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full." trochaic verse, the most graceful and flexible of all English measures, used by Dr. Watts himself in...

...to swell the volume and add to the onward and widening flood. His river did not flow like Denham's Thames, — " Though deep yet clear, though gentle...dull; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full." There was strength, but there was likewise rage ; a fine frenzy — not unoften due mainly to its rapidity...

...to swell the volume and add to the onward and widening flood. His river did not flow like Denham's Thames, — ' Though deep yet clear, though gentle...; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full.' There was strength, but there was likewise rage ; a fine frenzy — not unoften due mainly to its rapidity...

...waters grey, By fair Kilkenny and Rossepontc bend : which may be described in the words of the poet of the Thames — Though deep, yet clear ; though...; Strong without rage ; without o'erflowing full. One of our first excursions was to Kilkenny, on our way to which city we stopped at Bennet's Bridge,...

...or the attributes of things, in opposition, in order to heighten their effect by the contrast ; eg (The Thames.) Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle,...; Strong without rage ; without o'erflowing, full. Denharn. Let us be sacrificers, but not butchers, Caius ; — Let's kill him boldly, but not wrathfully...