 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 13por Select epigrams - 1797Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Western Reserve University - 1924
...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 - 243 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 - 182 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 - 304 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... | |
 | 1908
...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 - 2 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... | |
 | Robert Bridges - 282 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. Not />fry gcod l$nes; and die conteind fhavht if an arti' fatality warm'd... | |
 | John Broadbent - 1972 - 186 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. That edition of PL was one of the first books to be published by subscription.... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - 1993 - 495 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 ages... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - 1995 - 439 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. 38. Comment on Milton 1692 Question and Answer from Athenian Mercury (ie... | |
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