...Rhetoric (or Style) ANTITHESIS.* Pope is full of it — too full of it, and so is Macaulay. He says of the Thames : — " Though deep, yet clear ; though...dull, Strong without rage, without o'erflowing, full." " Worth makes the man, the want of it the fellow ; The rest is naught but leather and prunella." "...

...clear." D. iii. 170. Some of these types of antithesis seem copied from Denham's well-known description of the Thames : — " Though deep, yet clear ; though...Strong without rage ; without o'erflowing, full." Other instances of the double antithesis in a line are : — " Teach oaths to gamesters, and to Nobles...

...inexhaustible, and meanders on till the reader's attention is dulled. Were it only like Sir John Denham's River Thames — ' Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle,...dull ; Strong without rage ; without o'erflowing full ' ! But unfortunately this is not altogether so ; and though the treatise is a valuable and useful...

...risk of being grandiloquent, I shall claim for it — mutatis mutandis — Denham's well-known eulogy of the Thames — " Though deep, yet clear ; though...; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full." DEVONSHIRE SPEECH THE TRUE CLASSIC ENGLISH. BY FT ELWORTHT, Member of Council of the Philological Society....

...of older atíldente, by the иве of typical sentences. Take, at an example, Deuham'B description of the Thames: "Though deep yet clear, though gentle...dull, Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full,' loaded with superfluous technicalities and confused mis-statements borrowed from Latin grammar. For...

...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...

...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 flne frenzy — not unoften due mainly to its rapidity...

...style of older students, by the use of typical sentences. Take, as an example, Denham's description of the Thames : — ' Though deep yet clear, though...dull, Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full,' on which many changes might be agreeably rung, ' Learned without pedantry, and witty without malice...

...them, more uniformly strong and melodious in its flow, reminding one of the famous couplet of Denham on the Thames: — " Though deep yet clear, though gentle...Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full." And it has largely contributed to the fixation of the language at this its best estate, since the number...

...them; more uniformly strong and melodious in its flow, reminding one of the famous couplet of Denham on the Thames : ' Though deep, yet clear, though gentle,...dull, Strong without rage; without o'erflowing full.' " ' 'A Layman's Study of the English Bible, pp. 10, 11. Language of such matchless excellence, diction...