 | William Butler - 1811 - 548 páginas
...rtid adorn. The firft in majefty of thought furpafs'd, The next in gracefulnefs : in both the laft. The force of nature could no further go, To make a third Die join'd the other two. DRYDEN. The late Dr. Johnfon, though he was. ftrongly prejudiced againft... | |
 | 1812 - 156 páginas
...spouse, — For she fled from his arms — to distinguish his brtnvs. CCI. MILTON. Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn ; The first in loftiness of thought surpast ; The next in majesty — in both the last. The force of nature could no further go ; To make... | |
 | 1813 - 670 páginas
...with Homer and Virgil, vi<5, author a rank among the great ornaments of the pulpit, to which * that f' The force of nature could no further go, To make a third, she joined the other two," Panegyric so rash and extravagant as this, we have not before, we believe, hud occasion to reprehend.... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 páginas
...But, faith ! tis all in vain we do, The world nor credits me nor you. Milton. DRYDBN. THREE poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and 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 farther go : To make... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1816 - 462 páginas
...thrown. JOHN MILTON. Born 1608.—Died 1674. From 5th James /., to 2.5th Charles II. Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England, did adorn : The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd ; The next in majesty; i» both the. last: The force of Nature could no further go ; To make... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 524 páginas
...as a poet is given in the following lines, written by Dryden under his picture : ' Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpast; The next, in majesty ; in both, the last. The force of Nature could no farther go : To make... | |
 | Martin M'Dermot - 1820 - 1058 páginas
...three distant ages born, Greece, Italy1, and England ilkl adorn, The first in loftiness of thought The next in majesty, in both the last, The force of nature could no longer go, To make a third she joined tile former two. in a word, an opinion so glaringly inconsistent... | |
 | 1820 - 230 páginas
...celebrated epigram, constantly prefixed to Paradisc Lost, is little more than a translation. Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England, did adorn : The first in majesty of thought surpass'd, The next in gracefulness, in both the last. The force of nature could... | |
 | 1820 - 224 páginas
...epigram, constantly prelixed to ParaK '2 disc Lost, is little more than a translation. Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England, did adorn : The first in majesty of thought surpass'd, The next in gracefulness, in both the last. The force of nature could... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 504 páginas
...Grtecia Mreonidem, jactet sibi Roma Maronem, Anglia Miltonum jactat utrique parem. THREE poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and 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... | |
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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. 
