 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.  The Works of Alexander Pope - Page 195by Alexander Pope - 1822Full view - About this book
 | James Thorne - Thames River (England) - 1849 - 472 pages
...the excellence he sought after in the words of his famous apostrophe to the Thames : — " 0 conld I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme 1 Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dull ; Strong, without rage ; without o'erflowing,... | |
 | John Fisher Murray - Thames River - 1849 - 388 pages
...almost every writer for a century past has imitated, are generally known: • O could I flow like thoe, 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'erflowing full.'... | |
 | George Alexander Kennedy, Glyn P. Norton - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 790 pages
...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 great example, as it is my theme! / Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, / Strong without rage, without ore-flowing full.1... | |
 | John Hollander - Poetry - 1990 - 280 pages
...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... | |
 | D. M. R. Bentley - Literary Collections - 1992 - 341 pages
...in Quebec 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 example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without ore-flowing full.45... | |
 | Timothy J. Reiss - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 412 pages
...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 example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without ore-flowing full.... | |
 | Robert Fitzgerald - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 332 pages
...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 example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without ore-flowing full.... | |
 | American essays - 1894 - 926 pages
...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 as it is my theme ! Though deep, yet clear; though gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full."... | |
 | John Guillory - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1993 - 422 pages
...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 it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull Strong without rage, without oreflowing full. Denham... | |
 | D. M. R. Bentley - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 376 pages
...Criticism ("And the smooth Stream in smoother Numbers flows"), but also from the famous passage in Cooper's Hill- "O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream / My great example, as it is my theme!"(77) - which John Hollander sees as the locus classicus of "the idea that lines of verse should... | |
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