 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
 | 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... | |
 | 1919 - 776 páginas
...borrow an expression from Dryden's famous, though rather cheap, epigram on Homer, Virgil, and Milton : The force of nature could no further go: To make a third she joined the former two. Thus, from our place in history, it would seem that the turning-point in... | |
 | Archibald Ballantyne - 1919 - 358 páginas
...bestow'd some verses upon him, in which he puts him upon a Level with, nay above Virgil and Homer : The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she join'd the former two. ' The same Mr. Dryden, in his Preface upon his Translation of the A^neid,... | |
 | Thomas Goddard Wright - 1920 - 334 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. then we have another evidence of acquaintance with Milton's « Ibid., i.... | |
 | John Milton - 1892 - 672 páginas
...England did adorn. The first in loftiness of mind 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." Even before these lines were written the habit of comparing Milton with... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1921 - 506 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. NOTE. — The two poets referred to, other than Milton, are Homer and Dante.... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 páginas
...England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd; The next, in majesty; in both, the last. A mere madness, to live like a wretch, and die rich. BUBT she join'd the former two. DRYDEN — Under Mr. Milton's Picture. Homer, Virgil, Milton. (See also... | |
 | 1908 - 600 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." Again, in "The Soul of Books," Dryden writes that in opening Milton's pages... | |
 | Carolyn Wells - 1923 - 804 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. The original of these fine lines was probably a Latin distich written by... | |
 | 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;... | |
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