 | Ellis (Firm) - 1728 - 874 pages
..." 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." 82 DIGGES (Sir Dudley), The Compleat Ambassador : or two Treaties of the intended marriage of Qu: Elizabeth... | |
 | John Hughes - 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 - 978 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 - 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 - 1781 - 498 pages
...could I flow tike thec, And make fhy ftreani, lt 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." The lines are in themfelves not perfect ; for moft of the words, thus artfully oppofed, are to be underftood... | |
 | John Moore - 1781 - 544 pages
...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. 2 Heaven Heaven her Eridanus no more (hall boaft, Whofe fame in thine, like lefler current, 's loft.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 496 pages
...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'er-flowing full." The lines are in themfelves not perfect ; for moft of the words, thus artfully oppofed, are to be underftood... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...could I flow like thee, and make thy flrcam •* 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." The lines are in themfelves not perfect ; for moft of the words, thus artfully oppofed, are to be undcrftood... | |
 | James Elphinston - 1787 - 428 pages
...fomhwat oddher (boath in fenfe and found) dhan even dhe renowned, az capacious, diftic : Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not DULL : • Strong, without rage : without o'erflowing, FULL. It waz furely no wonder, dhat a flream, edher clear or gentel, mood not be dul. But, dho it might widh... | |
 | Charles Coote - 1788 - 308 pages
...Pafadife Anthhejls (o) is an apparent oppofition between one phrafe and another ; as, " Though deep, yet clear; though gentle, yet not dull; " Strong, without rage ; without o'erflowing, full." DtNHAM. Epanorthofis (p) is a Correction, or recalling, of what was before mentioned, as being too... | |
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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'erflowing full. 
