 | Richmal Mangnall - 1848 - 498 pages
...Dryden's celebrated 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... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1848 - 1798 pages
...poet in a hundred generations." He then repeated Dryden's celebrated lines, " 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... | |
 | Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1848 - 426 pages
...space, than are crowded into its last four lines. Does the reader remember it ? Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpast ; The next in majesty ; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go : To make... | |
 | Churches of Christ - 1849 - 588 pages
...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 a third she joined the... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...The way which thou so well hast learnt below. [0» īfiltm.] Three poets, in three distant ages bom, t as they keep, Entice the dewy-featherM sleep : And let some strange m surpass'd, The next in majesty ; in both the last. The force of nature could no further go ; To make... | |
 | Truman Rickard, Hiram Orcutt - English language - 1850 - 130 pages
...old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. 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 last. EXERCISE XII. Death of Adam and Eve. — MONTGOMERY. The sun in summer majesty... | |
 | Alexander Campbell, Charles Louis Loos - 1850 - 734 pages
...good suit of Anglo-Saxon words. Ae Dryden said of Homer, Virgil and Milton — 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 last; The force of nalurecould no farther go — To make a third, ahe joined the... | |
 | John Milton, James Prendeville - Bible - 1850 - 452 pages
...observation is most natural, as he was the author of the famous epigram — "Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did...The first in loftiness of thought surpassed ; The second in dignity ; in both the last. The force of nature could no farther go ; To make the third,... | |
 | Churches of Christ - 1850 - 590 pages
...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 surpast, The next in beauty, both the last : The force of Nature could no further go, To make a third... | |
 | Education - 1851 - 502 pages
...passage, and parse the, words printed in italics. To what three poets does it refer ? 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 last ,The force of nature could no further go, To mahe a third she joined the... | |
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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. 
