 | Edwin Owen Jones - 1853 - 235 páginas
...great author the merit of having combined the beauties of his most illustrious predecessors : — " 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 farther go ; To make... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 páginas
...shall go, As harbinger of heaven, the way to show, The way which tliou so well hast learnt below. ON MILTON. Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece,...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... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1854 - 426 páginas
...open. Perhaps we eanno' 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 j The next in majesty ; in both the last ; The force of nature could no further go ; To make... | |
 | John Dryden - 1853 - 602 páginas
...and meant for ornaments to heaven. UNDER THE PORTRAIT OF JOHN MILTON, PREFIXED TO 'PARADISE LOST.' 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... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1854 - 632 páginas
...popularity. The time immediately following produced Dryden's well known epigram :— " Three poets, iu 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... | |
 | John Relly Beard - 1854
...Milton's " Paradise Lost." Such is the perfection of these poems that they form a class by themselves. " Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn." The formation of our hermit, from the Greek eremites, illustrates the change which words undergo in passing... | |
 | John Dryden - 1854 - 524 páginas
...cruelty and blood was penitence. * Socrates. Orig. Ed. t This couplet recalls Dryden's own lines — ' Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn,' &c. On Milton's Picture. If sheep and oxen could atone for men, Ah! at how cheap a rate the rich might... | |
 | John Dryden - 1854
...umjactat utrique parem. Cowper translated Dryden's lines into Latin.] Poets in three distant ages born, J- 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... | |
 | Jeffry B. Spencer - 1973 - 319 páginas
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 | William Shaw - 1974 - 201 páginas
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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. 
