...deserts, woods in cities plants. So that to us no thing, no place is strange, While his fair bosom is the world's exchange. O could I flow like thee, and...great example, as it is my theme ! Though deep, yet dear ; though gentle, yet no< dull ; Strong without rage, without o'crfawing full." In the year 1647,...

...plants. So that to us no thing, no place is strange, While his fair bosom js the world's exchange. 0 could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great...as it is my theme ! Though deep, yet clear ; though gcptle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full." In the year 1647, the predicament...

...it; but he cheats by constitution, and overreaches by instinct. — Taller. DCCCXIX. (The Thames.) O could I flow like thee! and make thy stream My great...dull; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. No crime so bold, but would be understood A real, or at least a seeming good; Who fears not to do ill,...

...does not recollect the charming lines with which Denham describes the " silver river :" — " Oh I could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great..., Strong without rage ; without o'erflowing full. Immediately at your feet is the plain of Runnemede, where the great battle between John and the Barons...

...; a short essay. When a soldier was the theme, my name Was cot far off. Shakspeare. Cymbeline. О ! could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great...dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. Denham. Forcing the empty wits of children to compose tliemes, verses, and orations. Ulilton. Whatever...

...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...theme! / Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, / Strong without rage, without ore-flowing full.1 Depth with clarity, variety without confusion,...

...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...

...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...theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without ore-flowing full.45 To make poetry like reality, to imitate...

...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...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...

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