[109] See as illustrative: Waller, “On Repairing St. Paul’s,” l. 25; Cowley, “Davideis,” ii, 58; Milton, “Paradise Lost,” v, 215; Yalden, “To His Perjured Mistress,” l. 11; Parnell, “The Hermit,” l. 41; Young, “Satire IV,” l. 1; Dyer, “The Fleece,” ii, 648; Halifax, “On the Death of Charles II,” l. 77. [110] See as illustrative Dryden’s use of the sun in “Works,” IV, 276; II, 148, 185, 215, 454, etc. [111] See as illustrative: Waller, “To Amoret;” Addison, “An Account of the Greatest English Poets;” Spratt, “On the Death of the Lord Protector;” Dryden, “Works,” XI, 132; Cowley, “Clad All in White.” [112] As illustrative of Dryden’s use of similitudes drawn from water note the following: Revenge and rage are sudden floods; joys are torrents that overflow all banks; contending passions are tides that flow against currents; fame is a swelling current; anger is a dammed up stream that gets new force by opposition; a ruined life, destroyed fortunes, are shipwrecks; love is like springtides, full and high, or like a flood that bursts through all dams, or like a stream that cannot return to its fountain, or like tides that do turn; the disappointed lover dies like an unfed stream; the mind of a capricious tyrant is like a vast sea open to every wind that blows; the army of the enemy comes like the wind broke loose upon the main; an obdurate foe is as deaf to supplication as seas and wind to sinking mariners; an open mind is a crystal brook; grief undermines the soul as banks are sapped away by streams; the voice of a mob is like winds that roar in pursuit of flying waves; unspeakable anger is like water choking up the narrow vent of the vessel from which it is poured; and so on through a long list. [113] Prior, “Carmen Seculare,” st. 22. [114] _Ibid._, st. 4. [115] Pope, “Dunciad,” ii, 182. [116] Cowley, “Davideis,” ii, 20. [117] Halifax, “On the Death of Charles II,” l. 125. [118] Armstrong, “Benevolence,” l. 152. [119] Hughes, “Greenwich Park.” [120] Roscommon, “Essay on Translated Verse,” l. 316. [121] Somerville, “An Epistle to Allan Ramsay,” l. 5. [122] Thomson. “To De La Cour.” [123] Denham, “Cooper’s Hill.” The lines are, 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! Pope’s lines (“Dunciad,” iii, 169), beginning, Flow, Welsted, flow! like thine inspirer, Beer, Tho’ stale, not ripe; tho’ thin, yet never clear, * * * * * Heady, not strong; o’erflowing, tho’ not full, are a parody rather than an imitation. The same cannot be said of the line (“Temple of Fame,” l. 374), So soft, though high, so loud, and yet so clear. Prior has these lines (“Carmen Seculare,” st. 22),