 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.  The English Journal of Education - Page 581851Full view - About this book
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...the void, by some rude shock we're broke, And all our boasted fire is lost in smoke. Congreee. MLXXI. Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy,...last. The force of nature could no further go; To make a third, she join'd the former two. Under a portrait of Milton — Dryden. MLXXII. Must not that... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 412 pages
...made shift to slink In at a corn /n/f, through a chink. id. Three poets in three distant ages born ; The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, The next in majesty ; in both the last. Dryden. -Man, the tyrant of our sex, 1 hate, A lowly servant, but a lofty mate. Id. Augustus and Tiberius... | |
 | 1830 - 550 pages
...imitated (perhaps unintentionally) by Dryden, in his celebrated encomium on Milton; beginning — " Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy,...and England did adorn ; The first in loftiness of thougbt surpass'd; The next in majesty— in both tlie last. The force of Nature could no farther go... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...And Music shall untune the sky. VNDER THE PORTRAIT OF JOHN MILTON. [Prefixed to " Paradise Lost."] THREE poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy,...England, did adorn, The first in loftiness of thought surThe next in majesty; in both the last, The force of nature could no further go; To make a third,... | |
 | Joseph Ivimey - Poets, English - 1833 - 320 pages
...juster de scription of MILTON, considered as a poet, than in the well-known words of Dryden : — " Three Poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy,...last. The force of nature could no further go : To make a third, she joined the former two." Mention has been made of the withdrawment of MILTON at the... | |
 | Joseph Ivimey - Poets, English - 1833 - 430 pages
...and juster description of MILTON, considered as a poet, than in the well-known words of Dryden :— " Three Poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy,...thought surpassed; The next in majesty; in both the lastThe force of nature could no further go : To make a third, she joined the former two." Mention... | |
 | Mary Martha Rodwell - 1834 - 424 pages
...employed one of his daughters as his amanuensis : his character is thus portrayed by Dryden : — " 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 further go ; To make... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1835 - 414 pages
...subject there is as much of truth as there is of enthusiasm, in the following epigram of Dryden. ' Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy,...— in both, the last. The force of nature could no farther go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.' 'this connexion is, that essayists can be... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 350 pages
...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 a third, she join'd the former two. ADDISON.f BUT Milton next, with high and haughty... | |
 | William Cowper - Poets, English - 1836 - 384 pages
...paternos Eja age in aniplexus, cara Maria, redi. Page 183. " Dryden's illustrious epitaph on Milton." 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 make... | |
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