 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.  Select epigrams - Página 4por Select epigrams - 1797Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig, Asa Don Dickinson - 1922 - 1920 páginas
...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 twoir^B. , . Jokn ON A CERTAIN LADY AT I KNOW a thing that 's most uncommon;... | |
 | Harko Gerrit de Maar - 1924 - 266 páginas
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 | Harko Gerrit de Maar - 1924 - 266 páginas
...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 make a third, she join'd the former two. Still, there were many who did not take up the modern attitude of indiscriminate... | |
 | Western Reserve University - 1924 - 104 páginas
...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 a Third, she join'd the other Two. The first edition of Paradise Lost was publish'd in the year 1666, in ten... | |
 | Walter Jerrold - 1926 - 264 páginas
...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 other two. John Dryden. II Greece boasts her Homer, Rome her Virgil's name, But England's... | |
 | Wilfred Whitten - 1926 - 212 páginas
...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 make a third, she joined the former two. In his fine collection, "The Epigrammatists,"' the Rev. HP Dodd remarks... | |
 | James Holly Hanford - 1926 - 334 páginas
...England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty: in thought the last. The force of nature could no further go; To make a third, she joined the other two. Pope, Addison, and many others expressed their admiration in verse with similar... | |
 | Frederic W. Robinson - 1928 - 96 páginas
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 | Richard Green Moulton - 1915 - 550 páginas
...England, did adorn. The one in loftiness of thought surpass 'd; 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. The counterpart of the epigram in Sanskrit literature seems to be the quatrain,... | |
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