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
| Robert Bridges - 870 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 - 198 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 - 390 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 - 292 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... | |
| William Riley Parker - 1996 - 708 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. When Dryden penned these lines for the 1688 folio edition of Paradise Lost,... | |
| John Milton - 2003 - 1012 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. There are hesitations in this celebration of Milton's genius: to confirm... | |
| Hesther Lynch Piozzi - 2006 - 302 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." One evening in the oratorio season of the year 1771 Mr. Johnson went with... | |
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