 | John Dryden - 1837 - 482 pages
...widow consecrates this tomb. UNDER MR. MILTON'S PICTURE BEFORE HIS PARADISE LOST. 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. MONUMENT OF A FAIR MAIDEN LADY, WHO DIED AT BATH,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 478 pages
...tomh. UNDER MR. MILTON'S PICTURE BEFORE HIS PARADISE LOST. THREE poets in three distant ages horn, Greece, Italy, and 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... | |
 | Hannah More - Children - 1838 - 472 pages
...unchaste, Oppos'd to modesty, and genuine taste ; ' See Vignette, chapter ii. » " 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... | |
 | Henry Thompson - Authors, English - 1838 - 246 pages
...there seems a sentiment unchaste, Oppos'd to modesty, and genuine taste; 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 could no further go; To make... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1840 - 542 pages
...not only full as just as the 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 power of Nature could no farther go ; To... | |
 | 1840 - 488 pages
...poets that ever lived. The following lines by Dryden speak much in their praise. " Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in majesty of thought surpassed, The next in gracefulness ; — in both, the last. Th€ force of nature... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 556 pages
...natural, as he was the author of the famous epigram — " Three poets, in three distant ages horn, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn : The first in loftiness of thought surpassed ; The second in dignity ; in hoth the last. The force of nature could no farther go ; To make the third,... | |
 | Theology - 1855 - 630 pages
...under a picture of Milton, before his " Paradise Lost," in the folio edition : " Three poets, in three Oh ! confirm the bond so tender, - Tied by Thine own hand, we pray ; 'Till both Church and surpass'd; The next in majesty ; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...The way which thou so well hast learnt below. [On Hfilion.] Three poets, in three distant ages bom, rs surpass'd, The next in majesty ; in both the last. The force of nature could no further go ; To make... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 396 pages
...soothe the king of terrors, or mitigate the agonies of the dying? VAB1ETIES. Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did...first in loftiness of thought surpassed ; The next, in majesty ; in both, the lust. The force of nature could no further go ; To make a third, »he join'd... | |
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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. 
