 | John Broadbent - 1972 - 198 páginas
...engravings after the Spanish artist Medina, and a new portrait engraving with a poem by Dryden under it: 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... | |
 | Robert Bridges - 870 páginas
...did John Dryden mnn uflien, after ntdinj disc Lost, ht wrote vnder Milton's portrat die known verstf? 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... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1881 - 468 páginas
...wrote the following in regard to Milton, while the great Epic Poet was still in " dim eclipse :" — " 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... | |
 | Mark Bailey - 1880 - 80 páginas
...SURPRISING, and mark the peculiarity of his genius." 3. " Three poets, in three distant ages horn, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn : The first in MAJESTY of thought surpassed ; The next in GRACEFULNESS; in BOTH, the last." UNMARKED EXAMPLES.* 4. " Not enjoyment, and... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 páginas
...way to live, by dying. LiTB; OBEV; QFR; SeCV-2 Lines Printed under the Engraved Portrait of Milton 10 . loftiness of thought surpassed, The next in majesty, in both the last: The force of Nature could no... | |
 | Gerald M. MacLean - 1995 - 314 páginas
...strong writing, perhaps even literary histories of a slightly Whiggish cast,2 have so long determined 1 "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 cou'd... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - 1995 - 292 páginas
...Dryden, 'Epigram' (1688), printed beneath Milton's portrait in Paradise Lost, ed. Jacob Tonson (i< 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... | |
 | William Riley Parker - 1996 - 708 páginas
...than the then poet laureate, in a conventionally extravagant epigram, who first made the nomination: 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... | |
 | Alexandre Beljame - 1998 - 528 páginas
...Pvems, the second Sih'f, and the third Examen Poeticum. See my Bibliography, sv Dryden. " Three Pvets, in three distant Ages born, Greece, Italy and England did adorn. The First in lof1iness of thought Surpass Yl, The Next in Majesty ; in both the Last. The force of Nature couYl... | |
 | Richard Gameson, Nigel J. Morgan, D. F. McKenzie, Lotte Hellinga, John Barnard, Rodney M. Thomson, Joseph Burney Trapp, Maureen Bell, David McKitterick - 1998 - 964 páginas
...Similes, and Speeches.' Milton's epic had been given the status of a classic. Dryden commended 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 cou'dno... | |
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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. 
