 | Timothy J. Reiss - 1992 - 412 Seiten
...nineteenth. In them he offered the Thames as a model: O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep,...clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without ore-flowing full. (11. 189-92) The poem had first appeared in 1642 without these lines.... | |
 | Robert Fitzgerald - 1993 - 332 Seiten
...Dryden was fond of quoting Denham's lines on the Thames: O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep,...clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without ore-flowing full. He was also fond of alluding to Waller as the man who taught smoothness... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 Seiten
...strange, While his fair bosom is the world's exchange. O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep,...dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full. Heaven her Eridanus no more shall boast, Whose fame in thine, like lesser currents lost. Thy nobler... | |
 | Chris Fitter - 1995 - 358 Seiten
...meaning from landscape in the hieroglyphic tradition: O could I flow like thee and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme : Though deep...not dull, Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full.267 Denham's 'More boundless in my fancie than my eye' echoes the classic Augustinian inturning.268... | |
 | Tom Turner - 1996 - 262 Seiten
...Thames, to inspire future planners: O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great exemplar as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear; though...dull; Strong without rage; without o'erflowing, full. METAPHORICAL GARDENS Were Europe sinking beneath the waves, like Atlantis, and only two gardens could... | |
 | Timothy J. Reiss - 1997 - 264 Seiten
...apostrophizing the Thames, that form not obstruct idea: 'O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream / My great example, as it is my theme! / Though deep,...clear, though gentle, yet not dull, / Strong without rage, without ore-flowing full.' Depth with clarity, variety without confusion, interest with pleasure... | |
 | Douglas R. McGaughey - 1997 - 560 Seiten
...(the vehicle) to illustrate his point: O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great exemplar as it is my theme. Though deep, yet clear; though...not dull; Strong without rage; without o'erflowing, full.22 18 Richards, Philosophy of Rhetoric, p. 94. 19 Richards is well aware of Aristotle's association... | |
 | Gregory W. Dawes - 1998 - 294 Seiten
...poet Denham's lines on the Thames): O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great exemplar as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear; though...dull; Strong without rage; without o'erflowing, full. Here, Richards notes, 'the flow of the poet's mind, we may say, is the tenor, and the river the vehicle'.... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - 1879 - 554 Seiten
...merits the application of those lines of unsurpassed beauty in Denham's " Cooper's Hill," " Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage ; without o'erflowing, fuIl." ' In the character of Mr. Curtis there was a rare combination of firmness and force of purpose... | |
 | Claude J. Summers, Ted-Larry Pebworth - 1999 - 291 Seiten
...antithesis he and Waller brought to the heroic couplet: O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep,...clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without ore-flowing full. (189-92) 14. O Hehir glosses this line in the "A" text with the reminder... | |
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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. 
