| John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 506 páginas
...jactet sibi Roma Maronem, Anglia Miltonum jactat utrique parem. poets, in three distant ages bori}, 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... | |
| Panorama - 1809 - 368 páginas
...race : But I who bless'd like Paris, fear'd his fall, Swore each a Venus was,— and pleas'd them all. MILTON. THREE poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn ; The 6rst in loftiness of thonght surpast; The next in majesty — in both the last. The force of Nature... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 páginas
...throne, Trace the dark paths of Providence Divine, " And justify the ways of God to man." FC 1610. 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 make... | |
| John Sabine - 1810 - 308 páginas
...o'er the dstrk' her silver marifle threw. MILTON, O» Milton. Three poets in three distant ages b6rn, 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 farther go; To make... | |
| 1812 - 156 páginas
...behav'd like a true modern spouse, — For she fled from his arms — to distinguish his brtnvs. CCI. MILTON. Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece,...— in both the last. The force of nature could no further go ; To make a third, she join'd the other t-wo. CC. ccu. « On being advised to marry, Sir,... | |
| William Fordyce Mavor - 1816 - 462 páginas
...which they can be thrown. JOHN MILTON. Born 1608.—Died 1674. From 5th James /., to 2.5th Charles II. Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy,...England, did adorn : The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd ; The next in majesty; i» both the. last: The force of Nature could no further go ; To make... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 páginas
...censure blaze ; But, faith ! tis all in vain we do, The world nor credits me nor you. Milton. DRYDBN. 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 make... | |
| 1820 - 230 páginas
...Dryden's celebrated epigram, constantly prefixed to Paradisc Lost, is little more than a translation. Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England, did adorn : The first in majesty of thought surpass'd, The next in gracefulness, in both the last. The force of nature could... | |
| 1820 - 224 páginas
...Dryden's celebrated epigram, constantly prelixed to ParaK '2 disc Lost, is little more than a translation. Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England, did adorn : The first in majesty of thought surpass'd, The next in gracefulness, in both the last. The force of nature could... | |
| Martin M'Dermot - 1820 - 1058 páginas
...three distant ages born, Greece, Italy1, and England ilkl adorn, The first in loftiness of thought The next in majesty, in both the last, The force of nature could no longer go, To make a third she joined tile former two. in a word, an opinion so glaringly inconsistent... | |
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