...distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn ; The lint in loftiness of thought surpast ; The next in majesty ; in both the last. The force of nature could no further go, To make a third she j oin'd the other two : ' ' a rather fanciful epitaph ; after the fashion, however, of those days....

...distant ages horn, Greece, Italy, and England, did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed ; The next in majesty ; in both the last. The force...nature could no further go , To make a third, she joined the former two. Dryden. III. HOPE. THE wretch, condemned with life to part, Still, still on...

...distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftineaa of thought surpassed ; The next, in majesty ; in both, the last. The force...nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joln'd the former two. Under a portrait of Milton — Drydcn, The poetry of earth is never dead!—...

...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 moke a ilnnl, *ln> join'd the former two. Under a portrait of Milton — Drydtn. The poetry of earth...

...did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed ; The next, in majesty ; in both, the lust. The force of nature could no further go ; To make a third, »he join'd the former two. Under a portrait of Milton — Dryden. The poetry of earth is never dead!...

...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 conld no further go : To make a third she joined the other two. t We have many great poets, but only...

...Dryden's clever epigram : — Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn : The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd,...of nature could no further go : To make a third she joined the other two. The " Paradise Lost " therefore is a great epic, — and an epic poem is the...

...distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and F.ngland did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, ell, like most of the other productions of that age,...long-enduring neglect Their merits having been again other two. To my Honoured Kinsman, John Dryden, Esq. of Chesterton, in the County of Huntingdon. How...

...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 form the last she joined the other two.' That church, whose brick tower you may see surmounted by a...

...learnt below. — [On Milton.] Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did rought with high providence in his church; to sing victorious agonie« of ma IxHh the ¡.MI . The force of nature could no further go ; To make a third, she join'd the other two....