 | 1851 - 502 páginas
...the following passage, and parse the, words printed in italics. To what three poets does it refer ? 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,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1851 - 410 páginas
...hundred can expect a poet in a hundred generations." He then repeated Dryden's celebrated lines, " 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,... | |
 | Bengal council of educ - 1852 - 348 páginas
...horror that and thilling fears, Or ope the sacred source of sympathetic tears.' " Answer 9th.— " Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy and England did adorn, The first in loftiness of thought surpnst, The next in majesty, in both the last; The force of nature could no further go, To... | |
 | Edwin Owen Jones - 1853 - 258 páginas
...great author the merit of having combined the beauties of his most illustrious predecessors : — " 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 go... | |
 | 1853 - 748 páginas
...[Shakspeare's King Lear, Act IV. Sc. 1.] Quotation wanted. — Who is the author of the following lines ? — " 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 páginas
...As harbinger of 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 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... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1854 - 440 páginas
...we eanno' do better 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... | |
 | 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;... | |
 | John Relly Beard - 1854 - 368 páginas
...Milton's " Paradise Lost." Such is the perfection of these poems that they form a class by themselves. " Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn." The formation of our hermit, from the Greek eremites, illustrates the change which words undergo in passing... | |
 | John Dryden - 1854 - 318 páginas
...cruelty and blood was penitence. * Socrates. Orig. Ed. t This couplet recalls Dryden's own lines — ' Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn,' &c. On Milton's Picture. If sheep and oxen could atone for men, Ah! at how cheap a rate the rich might... | |
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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. 
