...century paft has imitated, afe generally known : ** O could I flow tike thec, And make fhy ftreani, lt My great example^ as it is my theme ! " Though deep,...metaphorically on the other; and if there be any language which does not exprefs intellectual operations by material images, into that language they cannot be...

...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...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....

...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...clear ; though gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erfiowing full. Heaven her Eridairus no more fhall boaft, Whofe fame in thine, like...

...imitated, are generally known : " O could I flow like thee, and make thy ftreani ** My great example, as i: is my theme ! " Though deep, yet clear; though gentle, yet " not dull; • " Strong -without rage, without e'er-flowing "'full." The lines are in themfelves not perfect ; for moft of the words,...

...a century paft has imitated, are generally known : " O could I flow like thee, and make thy ftream great example, as it is my theme ! " Though deep,...clear} though gentle, yet " not dull ; " Strong without rage, without e'er-flowing " full." The lines are in themfelves not perfect ; fat moft of the words,...

...feems pretty ftrong) has honoured them with his notice : O could I flow like thee, and make thy ftreatn My great example, as it is my theme ; Though deep,...clear, though gentle, yet not dull; Strong without rage, without o'erflowtngfull. * Thefe lines,' fays Dr. Johnfon, ' are < in themfelves not perfect,...

...rage, without o'erflowlngfull. * Thefe lines,' fays Dr. Johnfon, 'are ' in themfelves not perfedt, for moft of ' the words, thus artfully oppofed, are to * be underftood fimply on one fide the * comparifon, and metaphorically on the ' other ; and if there be any language ' which does not...

...century paft has imitated, are generally known : " O could I flow like thee, and make thy flrcam •* My great example, as it is my theme ! " Though deep,...moft of the words, thus artfully oppofed, are to be undcrftood fimply on one -fide of the comparifon, and metaphorically on the other ; and if there be...

...as will not bear a rigorous enquiry. The four verfes, which, fince Dryden has commended them, almofl every writer for a century paft has imitated, are...clear; though gentle, yet not dull; " Strong without rage, without o'er-flowmg full." The lines are in themfelves not perfeft; for moft of the words, thus...

...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...