...poem because it was not the first, a description which reminds us of Dryden's clever epigram : — Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy,...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...

...go, As harbinger of heaven, the way to show, The way which thou so well hast learnt below. — [On lates' rage. He gave UH this eternal spring surpass'd, The next in majesty ; in IxHh the ¡.MI . The force of nature could no further go ; To make...

...if he, with English pride, goes muttering on his way the lines now cut into the corner stone : — " Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy,...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 form...

...on?"—"No!"—Churton's Literary Rtgigter. Napoleon : an Epic Poem. By William Richard Harris. Longman & Co. " Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn." So sung a rhymer in the last century. Had he lived to our time, he would have added— " But lo ! a...

...thoughts into so small a space, than are crowded into its last four lines. Does the reader remember it ? Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy,...majesty ; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go : To make a third, she joined the former two. As these lines are on the author of Paradise...

...open. Perhaps we cannot do better than to conclude what we would say with the following stanza : — ON MILTON. " Three poets in three distant ages born,...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...

...best portrayed in Dryden's celebrated stanzas, written under Milton's picture, which are subjoined : " Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy,...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 farther go, To...

...hundred can expect a poet in a hundred generations." He then repeated Dryden's celebrated lines, " i QN< UƉ ^2Ţ ." Yb a6 v( g ޒaIun 3 ^ N| r... J;Tj I $z `l-3 ^ T w7th Rp 8 Nr surpass'd ; The next, in majesty ; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make...

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...lines, assigned him the superiority over all ancient and modem bards. " Three poets," says he — - in three distant ages born Greece, Italy, and England did adorn ; The firit in loftiness of thought lurpaised ; The next in majesty ; in both the lafit. The force of nature...