...especially be mentioned. The last describes it thus :— " Oh ! could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example as it is my theme : Though deep,...Strong, without rage ; without o'erflowing, full." 1 Anciently Tgdiuglon, because the tide reaches so for. 126. The Severn drains Central Wales, and some...

...which Denham describes the " silver river T" — " Oh ! 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'erflowing full." Immediately at your feet is the plain of Runnemede, where the contest between John and the Barons was...

...words of his iamoug apostrophe to the Thames : — " 0 could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme ! Though deep,...Strong, without rage ; without o'erflowing, full." " Four verses which," as Johnson remarks, " since Dryden has commended them, almost every writer for...

...the ambition of the present moment fade and disappear O could I flow like thee and make thy stream My great example as it is my theme Though deep yet...dull Strong without rage without o'erflowing full The country on being conquered by Joshua was divided by lot among the Jewish tribes Asher Naphtali Zebulon...

...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'erflowing full ; Heaven her Eridanus no more shall boast, Whose fame in thine, like lesser current, 's lost : Thy...

...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,...rage, without o'erflowing full.' "The lines are in themselves not perfect, for most of the words thus artfully opposed, are to be understood simply on...

...for praise in "Cooper's Hill" the following four lines: 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'erflowing full. Johnson's comment makes clear the principles underlying praise of Denham from the Restoration until...

...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 Depth with clarity, variety without confusion,...

...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. (11. 189-92) The poem had first appeared in...

...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,...; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full." Each generation has its own authorities and teachers. I quote Tennyson now ; fifty years ago I thought...