...Denham's Cooper's Hill, O could I flow like thee, and make thy dream 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. Denham. , Which Mr. Pope has thus parodied •, Flow Welfted, flow ; like...

...Thames — O could I flow like thee, and make thy Stream-^ My great Example, as it is my Theme !— Tho' deep, yet clear ; tho' gentle, yet not dull ;•...— Strong without Rage; without o'erflowing, full. — See alfo Ifaiah i. 5, 6. fcJV. — N. This Figure is likewiie cali'cl DIATYPOS18, porfeit Defcription...

...'f Hill. " O could I flow like thee, and make thy ftream " My great example, as it is my theme : " Tho' deep, yet clear ; tho' gentle, yet not dull ;...•' Strong without rage ; without o'erflowing, full !" So fweetly mawkilh, and fo fmoothly dull ; Heady, not ftrongj o'erflowing, tho* not full. Ah Dennis!...

...degrees into trade and commerce. Whatever elfe enriches a ftate, is not a conftant feeding ftream, (Tho* deep, yet clear, tho* gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full;) but but a momentary impetuous torrent, more deftructive than fruitful. 'It was a received opinion _...

...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, he regards, So far is...

...:' • 'I - 'l O could I flow like thee, and make thy ftream* My great example, as it is my theme ; Tho' deep, yet clear, tho' gentle, yet not 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...

...Cooler's riilL " O could I flow like thce, and make thy ftream " My great example, as it is my theme : " Tho' deep, yet 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. " — Ne tanta animis afluefcite...

...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...

...world's exchange. O could I flow like thee, and make thy ftream 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. Heav'n her Eridanus no more mall boaft, Whofe fame in thine, like lefler currents loft ; Thy nobler...

...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,...