...night, JJecaufe the fool would fain be thought a bite. * Parody on thefe lines of Sir John Denham. Tho' deep, yet clear, tho' gentle yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. pcvoted. t)evoted thus to politics, and cards, Nor mirth, nor wine, nor women,...

...fyllables, yet of different feet, according as the accent falls on thofe fyllables. Examples of this : O could I | flow like | thee/ and | make thy ftream My| great ex[ample, as it Is my theme ! In this couplet, the firft fyllable in the firft line is long, and with the two fhort ones that follow...

...John Denham, in his Poem on Cooper's-Hill, fays to the Thames ; '!•.?••... . . :' • 'I - 'l O could I flow like thee, and make thy ftream* My...clear, tho' gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. *• . * \ i " Camouens addrefles the Nymphs of Tagus in the like manner;...

...IMITATIONS. Ver. 169. Flow, Weljhd foui ! &c.] Parody on. Denham, Cooler's riilL " O could I flow like thce, and make thy ftream " My great example, as it is my...clear, tho' gentle, yet not dull; " Strong without rage ; without o'erflowing, full I Ver. 177. Embrace, emhrace, my fans? be foes no more !] Virg. ^n. vi....

...that ftanza of Denham's, which Dryden propofes as a paradox to be explained by the wits oi" his age : Tho' deep, yet clear ; || tho' gentle, yet not dull : Strong without rage ; J| without o'erflowing, full. Anciently, I believe, in all nations, mankind were fo captivated with...

...plants. So that to us no thing, no place is ftrange, While his fair bofom is the world's exchange. O could I flow like thee, and make thy ftream My great example, as it is my theme ! Though Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erfiowing...

...plants. So that to us no thing, no place is ftrange, While his fair bofom is the world's exchange. O could I flow like thee, and make thy ftream My great...; tho' gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full. Heav'n her Eridanus no more mall boaft, Whofe fame in thine, like lefler...

...plants. So that to us no thing, no place is ftrange, While his fair bofom is the world's exchange. O could I flow like thee» and make thy ftream My...! Tho' deep, yet clear; tho' gentle, yet not dull j Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full : Heav'n her Eridanus no more mall boaft, Whofe fame...

...plants. So that, to us, no thing, no place is ftrange, While his fair bofom is the world's exchange. O could I flow like thee, and make thy ftream, My great example, as it is my theme ! Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dull; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full....

...poetry,' This is lavifh praife; it will now be proper to examine how far it is really me-? rited : Tho' deep, yet clear, tho' gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full, The meaning here comprized, if fimply exprefled, is only this ; that the...