 | Lindley Murray - 1830 - 128 pages
...much better is it to get wisdom than gold !" " Mankind act oftener from caprice tlian reaion." / " Tho' deep, yet clear ; tho' gentle, yet not dull , Strong, without rage; without o'erflowing, full." '•' Good men, in this fraii, imperfect state, are often found, not only... | |
 | August Tholuck - Theology - 1862 - 510 pages
...SSernunft mit balben ©egeln. 2Bae 3)en = iiam »on ber ïb.emfe fagt, baâ gelte »от (Strom ber 9lebe: Tho' deep yet clear, tho' gentle yet not dull, Strong without rage, without overflowing full ïief unb Ьоф Наг, fartft raufi^enb, Ьсф niäft ©emalttg, Ьоф... | |
 | Mrs. Delany (Mary) - 1862 - 606 pages
...unlike her Grace of Marlboro'. It spreads, it adorns a country, and looks like the beautous Thames. Tho' deep yet clear, tho' gentle yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. One improvement might be recommended to the princely Marlboro', and that... | |
 | Joseph Guy (of Bristol.) - 1864 - 176 pages
...ten thousand in an hour. 19. THE THAMES. — Denham. О could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme ! Tho' deep, yet...; tho' gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage — without o'erflowing, full. 20. BRITAIN.— Waller. ' Our little world, the image 'of the great,... | |
 | Dublin city, univ - 1866 - 300 pages
...poem, which is in the same sort of verse, and to some extent in the same manner, as " Hudibras" ? 45. " Tho' deep, yet clear ; tho' gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage ; without o'erflowing full." Where do these lines occur, and to what do they relate ? ' 46. Johnson... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1868 - 340 pages
...antithesis we cannot improve on that selected in the old familiar volume of our schoolboy days, — Tho' deep, yet clear ; tho' gentle, yet not dull ; Strong, without rage ; without o'erflowing, full. APOSTROPHE can be used but seldom in poetry. It is the turning off from... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1869 - 570 pages
...Welstedtflowï&c.} Parody on Denham, Cooler's Hill. О 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 ; to be loosely quoted from Ног. Lib. i. Efist. v. 29.3 Ver. 356. Wings the red lighfning, of-'... | |
 | George Warburton Weldon - Analogy (Religion) - 1871 - 188 pages
...would apply to her Liturgy, her formularies, and her system generally, the words of the poet — " Tho' deep yet clear, tho' gentle yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full." And, though, he may doubtless be reminded of Apostolical succession, Episcopal... | |
 | George James De Wilde - 1872 - 292 pages
...parody on Denham's famous apostrophe to the Thames : — " 0 could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example as it is my theme : Tho' deep, yet...; tho' gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage ; without o'erflowing, full." Leonard Welsted was the son of the Rev. Leonard Welsted, the incumbent... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1873 - 590 pages
...Welsted,f?orv! &*c.] Parody en 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...; tho' gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage ; without -o'erflowing, full T Ver. 177. Embrace, embrace, my sens! b? foes no more /] 'No tanta anhnis... | |
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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. 
