 | Sir John Denham - 1709 - 24 pages
...plants. So that to us no thing, no piafe is itrange, . . While his fair bofomis the World's exchange. О could I- flow like thee, and make thy ftream My great...clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o're-flowing full, Heavea Heaven ber EriJatiat no more (hall boaft, Whofe Fame in thine,... | |
 | Ellis (Firm) - 1728 - 864 pages
...Cooper's Hill " (the first poem in this volume) : — " O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme ! Though deep,...dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full." 82 DIGGES (Sir Dudley), The Compleat Ambassador : or two Treaties of the intended marriage of Qu: Elizabeth... | |
 | John Duncombe - 1772 - 338 pages
...; and the clofing the couplet with the emphatical word " full," completes the harmony. Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage; without o'erflowing full. Thus it is plain that the firft three fentences have a different grammatical form, which varies the... | |
 | John Duncombe, John Hughes - 1773 - 998 pages
...; and the clofmg the couplet with the emphatical word " full," completes the harmony. Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dull; Strong, without rage ; without o'erflowing, full. Thus it is plain that the firft three fentencea have a different grammatical form, which varies the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 486 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...dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. Heaven her Eridanus no more fhall boaft, Whole fame in thine, like leffer current, 's loft ; Thy nobler... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 328 pages
...yet *' ,not, dull 5 " Strong without rage, without 6'er" flowing full." The lines are in therrrfelves not perfect ; for moft of the words, thus artfully...of the comparifon, and metaphorically on the other j and if DENHAM, i$ there 'be any language which does not exprefs intelledtual operations by material... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 334 pages
...theme! "' Tho'deep yet clear; tho'gentle, yet " not dull; *' Strong without rage, without o'er" flowing full." The lines are in themfelves not perfect; for...words, thus artfully oppofed, are to be underftood ftmply on one fide of the comparifon, and metaphorically on the other; and if there be any language... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 442 pages
...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. Heaven her Eridanus no more fliall boaft,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 1130 pages
...few who make vcrfes, have obferved the fweetnefs of thefe 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 reafon of that fweetnefs. I have given it to fame of my... | |
 | samuel johnson - 1779 - 342 pages
...dull; *' Strong without rage, without o'er" flowing full." The line's are in themfelves not perfe<5t; for moft of the words, thus artfully oppofed, are to be underftood fin.ir ply on one fide of the comparifon, and metaphorically on the other; and if there be any language... | |
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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'er-flowing full. 
