But her own king she likens to the Thames, With gentle course devolving fruitful streams; Serene yet strong, majestic yet sedate, Swift without violence, without terror great. Fr. Knapp addresses the sea on the Irish coast in the following lines (“To Mr. Pope”): Let me ne’er flow like thee! nor make thy stream My sad example, or my wretched theme. Mallet has the lines (cf. “Verbal Criticism,” l. 228): Great without swelling, without meanness plain; Serious, not silly; sportive, but not vain; On trifles slight, on things of use profound, In quoting sober, and in judging sound. In Dyer we have a fainter echo (“The Country Walk,” l. 69): Methinks her lays I hear, So smooth! so sweet! so deep! so clear! [124] Parnell, “David,” l. 49. [125] Stanhope, “Progress of Dullness.” [126] Addison, “An Account of the Greatest English Poets.” [127] Dryden, “Works,” XI, 7. [128] Marvell, “An Epitaph upon ----.” [129] Cf. Cowley, “Davideis,” iii, 553, and Pope, “Spring,” l. 81. [130] Dryden, “Works,” XI, 131; III, 390; II, 451. [131] Butler, “Satire to a Bad Poet.” [132] Ambrose Philips, “Epistle to a Friend.” [133] Congreve, “The Mourning Muse of Alexis,” l. 89; cf. also Fenton, “Florelia.” [134] Congreve, “The Tears of Amaryllis for Amyntas,” l. 143. [135] Watts, “A Funeral Poem on Thomas Gunston,” ll. 252, 308. Compare the indifference of Nature to the death of Lucy whose body is Rolled round in earth’s diurnal course With rocks, and stones and trees.--Wordsworth, “Lucy.” [136] Cowley, “Constantia and Philetus,” sts. 5, 10. [137] Shenstone, “Roxana.” For an interesting variation of this theme see Cowley, “The Spring.” [138] Hughes, “Cupid’s Review,” l. 17. [139] Marvell, “Upon Appleton House,” l. 661. [140] Waller, “At Penshurst.” [141] Marvell, “Upon Appleton House,” l. 689. [142] Wordsworth, “Lucy.” [143] Waller, “At Penshurst.” [144] Virgil, “Eclogues,” iv, 28; Dryden, “Pastoral,” iv, l. 33. [145] Virgil, “Georgics,” iv, 306; Dryden, “Georgics,” iv, 433. [146] Virgil, “Georgics,” iii, 156; Dryden, “Georgics,” iii, 250. [147] Dryden, “Works,” XII, 5; XI, 221. [148] Percy, “Reliques,” II, 190. [149] Somerville, “To Anne Coventry,” l. 25. [150] Cowley, “The Shortness of Life,” st. 11; “The Muse;” “Davideis,” ii, 29; “The Plagues of Egypt,” st. 17. [151] Blackmore, “Creation,” vi, 170; v, 101; Yalden, “The Insect.” [152] Somerville, “Field Sports,” l. 161. [153] Pitt, “Earl Stanhope;” “Ps. 144.” [154] Tickell, “Kensington Garden;” Somerville, “Rural Games,” i, 94. [155] Dyer, “Grongar Hill,” l. 65. [156] Dryden, “Works,” VI, 228. [157] Cowley, “Ode 2.”