 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
 | 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
...Conversations. 12. Select four of the following passages, name the authors, and state the context — (a) The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the other two. (6) Do Godamoighty knaw what a's doing a-taaking o' meii ? I beant worm as... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Mary Emogene Hazeltine - 1928 - 324 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." Dryden. 9 Peter Alexeievich, Prince Kropotkin. 1842-1921. Russian author... | |
 | 1908 - 396 páginas
...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. 'Mr. Malone,' says Scott, 'regards Dryden'a hexastich as an amplification... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - 1913 - 972 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." From Cowper's "Table Talk": "Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appeared, And... | |
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