...theme with fome of our moft diflinguiihed • poets. . ", O could I flow like thec, and make thy dream My great example, as it is my theme ! Tho' deep, yet...; tho' gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. , _ DENHAM. * Beneath her clalky cliffs fea-nymphs reforr, And awful Neptune...

...clofely allied though never fynonymous, fo truly beautiful, though approaching to redund. : ancy : Tho' deep yet clear, tho' gentle yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'trflowing — full. CONCONTENTS. P*ge ff*O abandon, forfake, relinquish, give up, dejert,...

...Dryden has commended them, almoft every writer for a century paft has imitated, are generally known: " O could I flow like thee, and make thy " ftream "...tho' gentle, yet not " dull; " Strong without rage, without o'erflowing " full." The lines are in themfelves not pcrfecT: : for moft of the words, thus...

...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....

...fure there are few who make verfcs, hare obferved the fweetnefs of thefe two lines in Cooper'sHill; " Tho* deep yet, clear ; tho' gentle, yet not dull ; " Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full." And there are yet fewer who can find the leafon of that iweethefs. I have...

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...to all thofe fables, in furpaffing them. " Sir John Denham, in his Poem on Cooper' s-Hill, fays to the Thames ; O could I flow like thee, and make thy...tho' gentle, yet not dull, , , Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. " Camouens addrefles the Nymphs of Tagus in the like manner ; " O Nymphs,...

...Sir John Denham, in his Poem on CooperVHfll, fays to the Thames ; O could I flow like thee, and nuke thy ftream, My great example, as it is my theme ;...clear, tho' gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. " Camouens addrefles the Nymphs of Tagus in the like manner ; " O Nymphs,...

...Indies ours; 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 ; tho' gentle yet not dull; Strong without rage, without overflowing full. Who...