 | Richmal Mangnall - 1848 - 498 páginas
...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 1798 páginas
...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... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1863 - 1194 páginas
...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 páginas
...The way which thou so well hast learnt below. [0» îfiltm.] Three poets, in three distant ages bom, t as they keep, Entice the dewy-featherM sleep : And let some strange m surpass'd, The next in majesty ; in both the last. The force of nature could no further go ; To make... | |
 | 1849 - 588 páginas
...Dryden — so far as respects genius and literary taste — Three poets, in three different ages torn, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, The next in beauty, in both the last ; The force of nature could no farther go, To make... | |
 | 1850 - 590 páginas
...antiquity, when set forth in a good suit of Anglo-Saxon words. As Dryden said of Homer, Virgil, and Milton : " Three poets in three distant ages born...first in loftiness of thought surpast, The next in beauty, both the last : The force of Nature could no further go, To make a third she joined the other... | |
 | Alexander Campbell, Charles Louis Loos - 1850 - 734 páginas
...antiquity, when t>e& forth in a good suit of Anglo-Saxon words. Ae Dryden said of Homer, Virgil and 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 nalurecould no farther go — To make... | |
 | Truman Rickard, Hiram Orcutt - 1850 - 130 páginas
...eternal home \ Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. Three poets, in three distant ages born, > Greece,...England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, The next in majesty, in both the last. EXERCISE XII. Death of Adam and Eve. — MONTGOMERY.... | |
 | John Milton, James Prendeville - 1850 - 452 páginas
...him. made the foregoing observation is most natural, as he was the author of the famous epigram — "Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece,...England did adorn : The first in loftiness of thought surpassed ; The second in dignity ; in both the last. The force of nature could no farther go ; To... | |
 | 318 páginas
...buried in St. Giles's, Cripplegate, having had three wives. me nrst in loftiness of thought surpas: 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. — DRTDEN. OLIVER CROMWELL was born 1.599,... | |
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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. 
