 | 1855 - 630 páginas
...lines were written under a picture of Milton, before his " Paradise Lost," in the folio edition : " 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... | |
 | 1851 - 650 páginas
...sublimity, there are few who have courted the Muses with equal success in other departments of poesy. 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 conld no further go... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 334 páginas
...friends from death 1 Can It soothe the king of terrors, or mitigate the agonies of the dying * VARIETIES. 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, ihe last. . The force of nature could no further... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 396 páginas
...friends from death? Can il soothe the king of terrors, or mitigate the agonies of the dying? VAB1ETIES. 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 lust. The force of nature could no further... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 390 páginas
...friends from death 1 Can it soothe the king of terrors, or mitigate the agonies of the dying? VARIETIES. Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftineaa of thought surpassed ; The next, in majesty ; in both, the last. The force of nature could... | |
 | Charles P. Bronson - 1845 - 438 páginas
...t Can il soothe the king of terrors, or mitígale the agonies oftlie dying? VARIETIES. Three poels, 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... | |
 | Old Humphrey - 1845 - 298 páginas
...Milton moulders. Dryden's fines 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 surpass'd, The next in gracefulness ; in both, the last. The force of nature could... | |
 | 1876 - 818 páginas
...outside wall recorded the date of his death, and the following inscription by the poet Dryden : — " Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn ; The lint in loftiness of thought surpast ; The next in majesty ; in both the last. The force of nature... | |
 | 1846 - 844 páginas
...poem because it was not the first, a description which reminds us of Dryden's clever epigram : — 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... | |
 | 1847 - 334 páginas
...if he, with English pride, goes muttering on his way the lines now cut into the corner stone : — " 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,... | |
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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. 
