..." 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...

...; 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...

...; 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...

...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...

...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....

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...however, 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. Heav'n her Ertdanus no more fhall boaft ; Her fame in thine, like lefler currents, loft ; Thy nobler...