 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 Popular Educator - Page 1541856Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1860 - 134 pages
...portrait in the handsome folio edition of Paradise Lost, which was published by subscription in 1680 : — "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... | |
 | John Milton - English poetry - 1860 - 574 pages
...sublime, In number, weight, and measure, needs not rhyme. EPIGRAM ON MILTON. 8T DBVDEN. Timsr PoeU, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England, did adorn: The firrt in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1861 - 570 pages
...has declared that the world has only seen three great epic poets. No less a poet than Dry den says " 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 iast; The force of Nature... | |
 | Jacob Lowres - 1862 - 192 pages
...this side death his dangers never cease ; His joys are joys of conquest, not of peace. — Young. (5.) 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...go, As harbinger of heaven, the way to show, The way which thou so well hast learnt below. 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... | |
 | 1863 - 858 pages
...whole force of that eulogy of Milton, which, at other times, I have deemed somewhat more than just "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 lust. The force of Nature... | |
 | Alexander Campbell - 1863 - 654 pages
...when set forth in a good suit of 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 surpass'd; The next in majesty, in both the last ; The force of nature... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 pages
...COWPER.— The Task, Book II. Line 285. Who live on fancy, and can feed on air. GAY.— Epi. VII. Line 20. 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... | |
 | John Hoskyns Abrahall - English poetry - 1863 - 140 pages
...execute in it ! ' All stood agape, and saw — the cloven hoof. Homer, Virgil, and Milton. 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... | |
 | Jacob Lowres - 1863 - 338 pages
...gifts. RULE 3.— PARTICIPLES. Participles relate to nouns or pronouns in the same sentence ; as, ' Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn.' — Dryden. ' When musing on companions gone, We doubly feel ourselves alone.' — Scott. NOTE 1. —... | |
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