 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
 | John Milton - 1860 - 134 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 two." Poetical commendations of Paradise Lost were also published by Dr. Samuel... | |
 | Henry William Dulcken - 1860 - 230 páginas
...did adorn ; The first in majesty of thought surpassed, The next in sweetness, and in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go, To make a third, she joined the other two." Sold for a pittance of fifteen pounds, neglected by the vitiated taste of... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1860 - 538 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, sho joined the former twe. t The following madrigal was addressed to a Laneastrian lady, and accompanied... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 960 páginas
...did adorn : The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd ; The next, in majesty ; in both the last. H she join'd the former two :" He received a card from Sir Alexander Gordon, who had been his acquaintance... | |
 | John Dryden - 1879
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 | 1863 - 326 páginas
...England did adorn. The first in loftiness of soul 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. THE THREE GREAT EPIC POETS. AGES elapsed ere Homer's lamp appeared, And ages... | |
 | Alexander Campbell - 1863 - 654 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." So we may say, with more than equal truth, the " force of nature" has not... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 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 other two. VENI CREATOR SPIRITUS, 1 Paraphrased from the Latin Hymn. Creator Spirit,... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 páginas
...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. DRYDEN. — Lines under Milton's Picture. Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp... | |
 | George Alexander Kohut - 1917 - 1066 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 join'd the former two." But he said nothing of Hebrew poetry. Probably he had in mind that the... | |
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