 | Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 ページ
...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; tho' deep yet...dull ; strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. /Jeav'n her Eridanus no more shall boast, whose fame in thine, like lesser current, 's lost; thy nobler... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 ページ
...exchange. O could I flow like thee ! and make thy stream my great example, as it is my theme; tbo' deep yet clear, tho' 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 current, 's lost; thy nobler... | |
 | Lorenzo Pignotti - 1813 - 228 ページ
...uno de' più celebri poeti inglesi Deuham , versi tanto giustamente celebrati dai suoi concittadini. Tho' deep yet clear , tho' gentle yet not dull' Strong witho'ut rage, witho'ut overflouring, tuli'. « Quantunque profondo, chiaro ; quantunque placido > « non torpido... | |
 | Jonathan Morgan - 1814 - 298 ページ
...in apposition should be separated by commas : As, " Paul, the apostle, was an eminent preacher." " Tho" deep, yet clear ; tho" gentle, yet not dull ;...Strong, without rage ; without o'erflowing. full." But proper names, and words closely allied in sense, tlio' in apposition, should not be separated 1... | |
 | A. W. Winkelmann - 1816 - 514 ページ
...opposition to each other, or with some marked variety; they require to be distinguished by a comma: as, "Tho' deep, yet clear; tho' gentle, yet not dull; Strong, without rage i without o'er/lowing, full." only in union with, but in opposition to, the views and conduct of one... | |
 | Filippo Pananti - 1818 - 524 ページ
...been described with more force and dignity than in .the celebrated Cooper's Hill of Sir John Denham : Tho' deep yet clear, tho' gentle yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. I have ever been a passionate admirer of running waters, so instrumental in keeping up the communication,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1818 - 158 ページ
...founded on the conrast or opposition of two objects. The following example illustrates his figure. • Tho' deep, yet clear; tho' gentle, yet not dull ; Strong, without rage ; without outflowing full." HYPERBOLE. Hyperbole or Exaggeration consists in magnifying an object beyond... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 822 ページ
...following in a description of the river Ti limes: -' O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example — as it is my theme! Tho' deep, yet clear; tho' gentle, yet not dull ; Stronz without rage; without o'erflowinz, full." ОГ these lines Dr. Johnson says: " So much meaning... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1821 - 324 ページ
...stores, but to diminish his desires." The following examples further illustrate this figure. Too'deep, yet clear; tho' gentle, yet not dull ; Strong, without rage ; without o'erflowing, full. " If 3'ou regulate your desires according to the standard of nature, you will never he poor ; if according... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 390 ページ
...Flow, Welsted, flow!] Parody on Denham, Cooper's Hill. " O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme : Tho' deep, yet...; Strong without rage ; without o'erflowing, full !" W. So sweetly mawkish, and so smoothly dull ; Heady, not strong ; o'erflowing, tho' not full. Ah... | |
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My great example, as it is my theme ! Tho' deep, yet clear ; tho' gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full. 
