| Reymond de Véricour, Louis Raymond de Véricour - 1838 - 448 páginas
...born , Greece , Italy , and England did adorn , The lirst in loftiness of thought surpast , The iiext in majesty ; in both , the last. The force of nature could no farlhêr go , To make a third , shejoined the former .two ! encore humides de la nouvelle composition... | |
| Edwin Sidney - 1839 - 580 páginas
...Oriental Nabobs put together. It was this: Non sum qualis eram; he was Ajax and Ulysses united. Since nature could no further go, To make a third, she joined the other two. " Should the Right Honourable Gentleman now lose the name of the Man of the People, he might be consoled... | |
| Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1839 - 642 páginas
...eyeballs became as coals of fire, and she did not shed a 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 a third, she join'd the former two." single tear. That woman's tears have not... | |
| Horace Walpole - 1840 - 542 páginas
...full as just as the original, but have not the tautology of loftiness and majesty : " Three orators in distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn ; The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd, The next in language, but in both the last : The power of Nature could no farther go ; To... | |
| 1840 - 488 páginas
...greatest poets that ever lived. The following lines by Dryden speak much in their praise. " Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in majesty of thought surpassed, The next in gracefulness ; — in both, the last. Th€ force of nature... | |
| John Milton - 1841 - 556 páginas
...natural, as he was the author of the famous epigram — " Three poets, in three distant ages horn, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn : The first in loftiness of thought surpassed ; The second in dignity ; in hoth the last. The force of nature could no farther go ; To make the third,... | |
| Henry Cruger Van Schaack - 1842 - 538 páginas
...poem, men appear to be twenty feet high." Did you ever see these lines of Dryden 1 " 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... | |
| 1855 - 630 páginas
...written under a picture of Milton, before his " Paradise Lost," in the folio edition : " Three poets, in race. Oh ! confirm the bond so tender, - Tied by Thine own hand, we pray ; 'Till both Church and surpass'd; The next in majesty ; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make... | |
| 1895 - 844 páginas
...Lincoln, Armagh, and Sllgo did adorn, The first in matchless impndence surpassed, The next in bigotry — in both the last ; The force of Nature could no further go, To beard the third, she shaved the other two. This was rather a personal attack, and was amusing only... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 páginas
...The way which thou so well hast learnt below. [On Hfilion.] Three poets, in three distant ages bom, rs surpass'd, The next in majesty ; in both the last. The force of nature could no further go ; To make... | |
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