 | Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 páginas
...so well haat learnt below. [Ore MUton.] Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, find England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd, The next in majesty ; in both the last. The force of nature could no further go ; To make a third, she join'd the... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 páginas
...heaven, the way to show, The way which tliou so well hast learnt below. ON MILTON. Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did...first in loftiness of thought surpass'd ; The next in majesty ; in both the last. The force of nature could no further go ; To make a third, she join'd the... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1854 - 630 páginas
...popularity. The time immediately following produced Dryden's well known epigram :— " Three poets, iu three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn : The first in loftiness of thought surpassed ; The next in majesty; in both the last. The force of nature could no further go; To make... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1854 - 440 páginas
...than to conclude what we would say with the following stanza : — ON MILTON. " Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England, did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed j The next in majesty ; in both the last ; The force of nature could no further go ; To make... | |
 | John Dryden - 1854 - 324 páginas
...umjactat utrique parem. Cowper translated Dryden's lines into Latin.] Poets in three distant ages born, J- Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first, in loftiness of thought surpassed ; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of nature could no further go ; To make... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 202 páginas
...accounted perfect ; whom it were a kind of treason to find fault with." — CARLYLE. "Three poets in three distant ages born Greece, Italy, and England did adorn The first in loftiness of thought surpassed ; The next, in majesty; in both, the last. The force of Nature could no further go : To make... | |
 | 1855 - 662 páginas
...highest genins of poetry. Of Homer, Virgil, and Milton, Dryden has said — " Three pocts in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thonght surpassed, The next in majesty, in both the last : The force of nature conld no further go,... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - 1855 - 508 páginas
...as it is usual to find in such pointed criticism : — ON MILTON. " Three poets in three different ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of soul surpassed, The next in majesty, in both the last. The force of nature could no further go ; To... | |
 | Old Humphrey - 1855 - 304 páginas
...Dryden's lines on the three great poets, Homer, Virgil, and Milton, are well known. " Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn ; The first in majesty of thought surpaas'd, The next in gracefulness ; in both, the last. The force of nature could... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 páginas
...heaven, the way to show, The ivay which thou so well hast learnt below. ON MILTON. Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did...first in loftiness of thought surpass'd ; The next in majesty; in both the last. The force of nature could no further go; To make a third, she join'd the... | |
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THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two. 
