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Updated: June 23, 2025
Till the stream ruby-glowing, On all sides o'erflowing, Shall fall in cascades to the health of the Headlong! The Headlong Ap-Headlong Ap-Breakneck Ap-Headlong Ap-Cataract Ap-Pistyll Ap-Rhaiader Ap-Headlong!
But no perfumed blandishment of doubtful goddesses won Longfellow from his sweet and domestic Muse. The clear thought, the true feeling, the pure aspiration, is expressed with limpid simplicity: "Strong without rage; without o'erflowing, full."
Sir John Denham, also, in his Cooper's Hill, 1643, had written such verse as this: 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 o'erflowing full.
Among the wonders of Nature to be met with in the Australian bush, the large rivers occasionally dried up to their very lowest depth by the extreme drought, are very remarkable. Few natural objects can equal in beauty and utility a river in its proper state, "Though deep, yet clear; though gentle, yet not dull; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full;"
And whilst he thus spake he kissed with o'erflowing eyes the hands of him with whom he spake, and behaved altogether like one to whom a precious gift and jewel hath fallen unawares from heaven. The kine, however, gazed at it all and wondered. "Speak not of me, thou strange one; thou amiable one!" said Zarathustra, and restrained his affection, "speak to me firstly of thyself!
so I will give your lordship another, and leave the exposition of it to your acute judgment. I am sure there are few who make verses have observed the sweetness of these two lines in "Cooper's Hill" "Though deep, yet clear; though gentle, yet not dull; Strong without rage; without o'erflowing, full" and there are yet fewer who can find the reason of that sweetness.
Alas! to see the strength that clings Round woman in such hours! A mournful sight, Though lovely! an o'erflowing of the springs, The full springs of affection, deep and bright!
Her own meditations, illumined by the beautiful face in her presence, referred to the security of Mr. Dacier. 'So, then, life is going smoothly, said Emma. 'Yes, at a good pace and smoothly: not a torrent Thames-like, "without o'erflowing full." It is not Lugano and the Salvatore. Perhaps it is better: as action is better than musing. 'No troubles whatever? 'None.
His tragedy, The Sophy, and his translation of the Psalms are now forgotten, but he is still remembered for one piece, Cooper's Hill, in which occur the well-known lines addressed to the River Thames: 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 o'erflowing, full.
Whilst I was strolling along the banks of the Seine, I could not help remarking that it would suffer much by a comparison with the Thames, so finely described by sir John Denham Though deep, yet clear, though gentle yet not dull: Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full.
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