 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 Mysterious Man: A Novel - Page 173by Frederick Chamier - 1844Full view - About this book
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...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. ODES, SONGS, AND LYRICAL PIECES. FAREWELL, FAIR ARMIDA, A SONG. This Song was written on the death... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 500 pages
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 | 1830 - 542 pages
...minds of the same individuals, anti-celtic prejudice, and pride of Celtic birth ! " The force of nature could no further go, To make a third she joined the former two." Yet, notwithstanding what we have said, we are far from feeling disrespect for the present race of... | |
 | Joseph Ivimey - 1833 - 430 pages
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 | Mary Martha Rodwell - 1834 - 424 pages
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 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...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. Dryden. III. HOPE. THE wretch, condemned with life to part, Still, still on hope relies ; And every... | |
 | Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare - 1848 - 426 pages
...first in loftiness of thought surpast ; 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. As these lines are on the author of Paradise Lost, we know who must be the other poets spoken of: else... | |
 | 1893 - 688 pages
...first in grace and loveliness surpassed ; In wit the second, and in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two. Had Troy still been, more worlds bad strewn her plain, Had Charles still lived, he ne'er had roved... | |
 | 318 pages
...me nrst in loftiness of thought surpas: 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. — DRTDEN. OLIVER CROMWELL was born 1.599, near the banks of the Ouse, in Huntingdon. He was a short... | |
 | Bengal council of educ - 1852 - 348 pages
...The first in loftiness of thought surpnst, 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."—Dryden. In the fifth verse Thomson promises to write such lyric poetry as were composed by... | |
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