| John Daniel Morell - 1873 - 494 pages
...Rhetoric (or Style) ANTITHESIS.* Pope is full of it — too full of it, and so is Macaulay. He says of the Thames : — " Though deep, yet clear ; though...dull, Strong without rage, without o'erflowing, full." " Worth makes the man, the want of it the fellow ; The rest is naught but leather and prunella." "... | |
| Edwin Abbott, Edwin Abbott Abbott - 1875 - 404 pages
...clear." D. iii. 170. Some of these types of antithesis seem copied from Denham's well-known description of the Thames : — " Though deep, yet clear ; though...Strong without rage ; without o'erflowing, full." Other instances of the double antithesis in a line are : — " Teach oaths to gamesters, and to Nobles... | |
| 1887 - 532 pages
...inexhaustible, and meanders on till the reader's attention is dulled. Were it only like Sir John Denham's River Thames — ' Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle,...dull ; Strong without rage ; without o'erflowing full ' ! But unfortunately this is not altogether so ; and though the treatise is a valuable and useful... | |
| Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art - 1880 - 730 pages
...risk of being grandiloquent, I shall claim for it — mutatis mutandis — Denham's well-known eulogy of the Thames — " Though deep, yet clear ; though...; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full." DEVONSHIRE SPEECH THE TRUE CLASSIC ENGLISH. BY FT ELWORTHT, Member of Council of the Philological Society.... | |
| 1882 - 1112 pages
...of older atíldente, by the иве of typical sentences. Take, at an example, Deuham'B description of the Thames: "Though deep yet clear, though gentle...dull, Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full,' loaded with superfluous technicalities and confused mis-statements borrowed from Latin grammar. For... | |
| John Brown - 1882 - 506 pages
...to swell the volume and add to the onward and widening flood. His river did not flow like Denham's Thames, — ' Though deep yet clear, though gentle...; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full.' There was strength, but there was likewise rage ; a fine frenzy — not unoften due mainly to its rapidity... | |
| John Brown - 1882 - 474 pages
...to swell the volume and add to the onward and widening flood. His river did not flow like Denham's Thames, — "Though deep yet clear, though gentle...dull; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full." There was strength, but there was likewise rage; a flne frenzy — not unoften due mainly to its rapidity... | |
| Edwin Abbott Abbott - 1883 - 236 pages
...style of older students, by the use of typical sentences. Take, as an example, Denham's description of the Thames : — ' Though deep yet clear, though...dull, Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full,' on which many changes might be agreeably rung, ' Learned without pedantry, and witty without malice... | |
| Francis Bowen - 1885 - 160 pages
...them, more uniformly strong and melodious in its flow, reminding one of the famous couplet of Denham on the Thames: — " Though deep yet clear, though gentle...Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full." And it has largely contributed to the fixation of the language at this its best estate, since the number... | |
| 1886 - 592 pages
...them; more uniformly strong and melodious in its flow, reminding one of the famous couplet of Denham on the Thames : ' Though deep, yet clear, though gentle,...dull, Strong without rage; without o'erflowing full.' " ' 'A Layman's Study of the English Bible, pp. 10, 11. Language of such matchless excellence, diction... | |
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