 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 páginas
...the void, by some rude shock we're broke, And all our boasted fire is lost in smoke. Congreee. MLXXI. 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;... | |
 | Joseph Ivimey - 1833 - 430 páginas
...and juster description of MILTON, considered as a poet, than in the well-known words of Dryden :— " 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 lastThe force of nature could no further go : To... | |
 | Mary Martha Rodwell - 1834 - 424 páginas
...employed one of his daughters as his amanuensis : his character is thus portrayed by Dryden : — " 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... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1835 - 414 páginas
...subject there is as much of truth as there is of enthusiasm, in the following epigram of Dryden. ' 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 farther... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 384 páginas
...paternos Eja age in aniplexus, cara Maria, redi. Page 183. " Dryden's illustrious epitaph on Milton." 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,... | |
 | 1836 - 558 páginas
...thy theme, sublime, In number, weight, and measure, needs not rhyme. EPIGRAM ON MILTON. BY DRYDEN. THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England, did adorn: Tin ih>I in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 482 páginas
...10 come His pious widow consecrates this tomb. UNDER MR. MILTON'S PICTURE BEFORE HIS PARADISE LOST. 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. MONUMENT OF A FAIR MAIDEN LADY, WHO DIED... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1837 - 462 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 surpassed, The next in language, but in both the last: The pow'r of nature could no farther... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1837 - 462 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 pow'r of nature could no farther... | |
 | Henry Thompson - 1838 - 452 páginas
...seems a sentiment unchaste, Oppos'd to modesty, and genuine taste ; I See Vignette, chapter ii. a " 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... | |
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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. 
