 | John Walker, William Trollope - Names in the Bible - 1833 - 194 pages
...commendation of the sweetness and smoothness of two lines ef Denham in praise of the Thames " Though deep yet clear, though gentle yet not dull : Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full :" and this commendation of Drynen's has been echoed by all subsequent writers, who have taken it for... | |
 | James Puckle - Maxims - 1834 - 218 pages
...pleasant, and instructive, young and old both delighted and profited in his company. " Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dull : Strong, without rage ; without o'erflowing, full '." The scholar and the gentleman were so perfectly united, no critic could find the least distinction The... | |
 | James Puckle - Aphorisms and apothegms, English - 1834 - 210 pages
...pleasant, and instructive, young and old both delighted and profited in his company. " Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dull : Strong, without rage ; without o'erflowing, full 1." The scholar and the gentleman were so perfectly united, no critic could find the least distinction... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1834 - 188 pages
...are sometimes in union with, and sometimes in opposition to, the views of each other. " Though deep, yet clear; though gentle, yet not dull, Strong, without rage; without o'erflowing, full." When one word follows the last preposition, a comma must not be inserted before it; as, "He was much... | |
 | Virgil - Aeneas (Legendary character) - 1834 - 314 pages
...who make verses, but have observed the sweetness of these two lines in Cooper's Hill ; Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage ; without, o'erflowing, full ; and there are yet fewer who can find the reason of that sweetness. I have given it to some of my... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1909 - 1118 pages
...spontaneity. Weighty as it is, and full of meaning, it runs as the English language ought to run, Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. be brought to the service of his art. But he was the master, not the slave, of his accomplishments.... | |
 | Max Kaluza - English language - 1911 - 422 pages
...flow I like theej and makej thy stream! My great example, as it is my theme.. , j__^ Though jleep, yet clear; though gentle, yet not dull; Strong without rage; without o'erflowing, full. (Denham, Cooper's Hill.) Then cast a languishing regard around, i And saw with hateful eyes the temples... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...lines: 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. Johnson's comment makes clear the principles underlying praise of Denham from the Restoration until... | |
 | 536 pages
...Original: 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. Die Übersetzung der Verse stammt von Chr. Fr. Weichmann, vgl. Poesie der Niedersachsen, Bd. l, S.... | |
 | William N. Parker - Business & Economics - 1991 - 404 pages
...be turned into real investment. An ideal credit system may be said to be like a river: "though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull; strong without rage, without o'erflowing, full." Such a supply the Midwest had, and through the devices of the tariff and open immigration, its political... | |
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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. 
