 | John Duncombe - English letters - 1772 - 338 pages
...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... | |
 | Luís de Camões - Explorers - 1776 - 674 pages
...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...dull, Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. *• . * \ i " Camouens addrefles the Nymphs of Tagus in the like manner; " O Nymphs, if ever I fung... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1777 - 212 pages
...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..." Strong without rage ; without o'erflowing, full I Ver. 177. Embrace, emhrace, my fans? be foes no more !] Virg. ^n. vi. " — Ne tanta animis afluefcite... | |
 | Joseph Priestley - Criticism - 1777 - 348 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 236 pages
...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... | |
 | English periodicals - 1781 - 512 pages
...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...; Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full. Heav'n her Eridanus no more mall boaft, Whofe fame in thine, like lefler currents loft ; Thy nobler... | |
 | English poetry - 1781 - 516 pages
...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... | |
 | John Moore - Europe - 1781 - 544 pages
...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.... | |
 | John Scott, John Hoole - English poetry - 1785 - 544 pages
...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 ftream was deep and clear,... | |
 | Henry Headley - English poetry - 1787 - 232 pages
...to 580. Page 69. Low without creeping, &c. Thus Denham in his popular lines, addrefiing the Thames: O could I flow like thee ! and make thy ftream My...clear; tho' gentle, yet not dull; Strong, without rage ; without overflowing, full. Cooper's Hill. ,See an excellent parody of thefe lines in the Dunciad.... | |
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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. 
