...terrors, or mitígale the agonies oftlie dying? VARIETIES. Three poels, 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...

...description which reminds us of 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, The next in majesty ; in both the last. The force of nature could no further go : To make...

...way which thou so well hast learnt below. — [On Milton.] Three poets, in three distant ages born, I ぀ surpass'd, The next in majesty ; in IxHh the ¡.MI . The force of nature could no further go ; To make...

...on his way the lines now cut into the corner stone : — " 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 form...

...stanzas, written under Milton's picture, which are subjoined : " 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...

...what we would say with the following stanza : — ON MILTON. " 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...

...generations." He then repeated Dryden's celebrated lines, " Three poets in three distant ages born, 0 surpass'd ; The next, in majesty ; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make...

...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...

...Anglo-Saxon words. As Dryden said of Homer, Virgil, and Milton : " Three poets in three distant ages born — Greece, Italy, and England, did adorn : The 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...

...most natural, as he was the author of the famous epigram — "Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and 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...