 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.  Joe Miller's Jests: With Copious Additions - Página 220por Joe Miller - 1836 - 248 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 504 páginas
...jactet sibi Roma Maronem, Anglia Miltonum jactat utrique parem. THREE poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and 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... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 páginas
...And all our boasted fire is lost in smoke. Congreee. MLXXI. 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... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 358 páginas
...And all our boasted fire is lost in smoke. MLXXI. Congreve. 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... | |
 | Joseph Ivimey - 1833 - 430 páginas
...considered as a poet, than in the well-known words of Dryden :— " 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 lastThe force of nature could no further go : To make a... | |
 | Mary Martha Rodwell - 1834 - 424 páginas
...amanuensis : his character is thus portrayed by Dryden : — " Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and 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... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1835 - 414 páginas
...there is of enthusiasm, in the following epigram of Dryden. ' 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 farther go ;... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 384 páginas
...redi. Page 183. " Dryden's illustrious epitaph on Milton." Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and 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 Dryden - 1837 - 478 páginas
...to come His pious widow consecrates this tomh. UNDER MR. MILTON'S PICTURE BEFORE HIS PARADISE LOST. THREE poets in three distant ages horn, Greece, Italy,...England did adorn. The first, in loftiness of thought surpass'd ; The next, in majesty ; in hoth the hut. The force of nature could no further go ; To make... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1837 - 462 páginas
...original, but have not the tautology of loftiness and majesty : Three orators in distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn : The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd, The next in language, but in both the last: The pow'r of nature could no farther go; To... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1837 - 462 páginas
...original, but have not the tautology of loftiness and majesty : Three orators in distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn : The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, The next in language, but in both the last: The pow'r of nature could no farther go ; To... | |
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