 | James Andrew - English language - 1817 - 152 pages
...verses into similar cadences, that are at once grammatical, metrical, and sententious. Though deep, yet clear; though gentle, yet not dull; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. Denham. RULES OF VERSIFICATION. 1 . Verses may be long or short within moderate limits, the shortest... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 410 pages
...could I flow like thee, and make thy stream " My groat example, as it is my theme ! " Though docp, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dull ; " Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full." The lines are in themselves not perfect ; for most of the words, thus artfully opposed, are to be understood... | |
 | 1818 - 266 pages
...bound, and defacing the fair soil it should adorn ; but, like the fertilizing river, " Though derp yet clear, though gentle yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'erflowing, full." In the beginning of our acquaintance we conversed in Italian, but as I was not very fluent, she politely... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 358 pages
...exchange. O could I flow like thce ; and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme ; eep, yet clear; though gentle, yet not dull; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full; 1 Io-avert her Eridanus no more shall boast, Whose fame in thine, like lesser current, 's lost : Thy... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 466 pages
...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." The lines are in themselves not perfect ; for most of the words, thus artfully opposed, are to be understood... | |
 | Joseph Spence - 1820 - 318 pages
...the Thames owes a great part of its fineness to the frequency and variety of the pauses: Though deep, yet clear; though gentle, yet not dull; Strong, without rage; without o'erflowing, full. Mr. Auditor Benson. There is none of our poets of that class [the class of Dorset and Rochester] that... | |
 | John Moore - 1820 - 476 pages
...exchange. 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. Heaven her Eridanus no more shall boast, Whose fame in thine, like lesser current, '« lost. You will... | |
 | John Corry - London (England) - 1820 - 328 pages
...sincere, honest, modest, it resembles Denham's beautiful description of the Thames ; " Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full."" By mingling with adventurers from various nations, in London, the purity of the genuine English character... | |
 | John Moore - 1820 - 472 pages
...exchange. 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. Heaven her Eridanus no more shall boast, Whose fame in thine, like lesser current, 'a lost, You will... | |
 | John Corry - London (England) - 1820 - 332 pages
...which, as the tide was then on the ebb, did not correspond with Denham's description, " Though deep yet clear, though gentle yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full." For it was then comparatively shallow, and its stream tinged with mud, and the various discolorations... | |
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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. 
