 | William Bernard Cooke - England - 1811 - 324 pages
...exchange. O could I flow like thee, and make my 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 ; Heav'n her Eridanus no more shall boast, Whose fame's in this, like lesser currents lost. Staines... | |
 | Edward Augustus Kendall - 1811 - 462 pages
...eyes. 19. " Enantiosis," or antithesis, the placing things in opposition to each other : " Though deep yet clear, though gentle yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full." 20. " Paralepsis," or omission, a figure by 'which the orator pretends to conceal or pass by what he... | |
 | Samuel Owen - Thames River (England) - 1811 - 416 pages
...exchange. O could I flow like thee, and make my 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 ; Heav'n her Eridanus no more shall boast, Whose fame's in this, like lesser currents lost. Staines... | |
 | Edward Augustus Kendall - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1811 - 476 pages
...in, certain words. An instance of the latter is familiar : I saw it icith my own eyes. ^ Though deep yet clear, though gentle yet not dull; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing fall." 90. " Paralepsis," or omission, a figure by •which the orator pretends to conceal or pass... | |
 | Robert Treat Paine - American literature - 1812 - 572 pages
...PA. ROPY on part of the last line in the following passage of Denham's "Cooper's Hill." Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dull; Strong, without rage ; without o'erflowing, full." V Page 180, lines 11—12. Profound in trifes, he can tell, hov> thort Were JEnfft leg*, Aow large... | |
 | Thomas Pennant - 1813 - 742 pages
...exchange. O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme ! Tho' deep, yet clear; though gentle, yet not dull ; Strong, without rage ; without o'erflowing, full. Heav'n her Eridanus no more shall boast, Whose fame in thine, like lesser currents, lost. APPENDIX.... | |
 | Thomas Pennant - London (England) - 1813 - 720 pages
...exchange. O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme ! Tho' deep, yet clear; though gentle, yet not dull ; Strong, -without rage ; without o'erflowing, full. Heav'n her Eridanus no more shall boast, Whose fame in thine, like lesser currents, lost. • APPENDIX.... | |
 | Thomas Faulkner - Fulham (London, England) - 1813 - 526 pages
...: O could I flow like thee, aad 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. Cooper's Hill. Pope, in his luxuriant vein of poetry, describes this majestic stream by the following... | |
 | Joseph Nightingale - 1816 - 182 pages
...new and inexhaustible t uppiy of fresh water. This river is thus beautifully and characteristically described by Sir John Denham : " Though deep, yet...Strong without rage; without o'erflowing, full!" The river Lea forms the eastern border of the county. The Brent, the Coin, and the small river Corn, are... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...though mighty dull ; Fierce, without strength ; o'crflowing, though not full. * Parody on these lines of Sir John Denham : Though deep yet clear, though gentle...dull, Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. ELEGANT EXTRACTS, Now quite a Frenchman in his garb and air, His neck yok'd clown with bag and solitaire,... | |
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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'erflowing full. 
