 | John Dryden - 1837 - 482 pages
...10 come His pious widow consecrates this tomb. UNDER MR. MILTON'S PICTURE BEFORE HIS PARADISE LOST. 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. MONUMENT OF A FAIR MAIDEN LADY, WHO DIED AT BATH,... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1837 - 462 pages
...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 pow'r of nature could no farther go; To... | |
 | Hannah More - 1838 - 472 pages
...seems a sentiment unchaste, Oppos'd to modesty, and genuine taste ; ' See Vignette, chapter ii. » " 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... | |
 | Henry Thompson - 1838 - 452 pages
...seems a sentiment unchaste, Oppos'd to modesty, and genuine taste ; I See Vignette, chapter ii. a " 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... | |
 | 1840 - 488 pages
...the three greatest 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... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1840 - 542 pages
...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... | |
 | 1855 - 630 pages
...lines were written under a picture of Milton, before his " Paradise Lost," in the folio edition : " e glory of thy grace. Oh ! confirm the bond so tender,...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... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 330 pages
...friends from death ? Can it soothe the king of terrors, or mitigate the agonies of the dying 1 VARIETIES. Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy,...thought surpassed ; The next, in majesty ; in both, the last. The force of nature could no further go ; To make a third, she join'd the former two. Under a... | |
 | 1851 - 650 pages
...sublimity, there are few who have courted the Muses with equal success in other departments of poesy. Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy,...thought surpassed; The next in majesty ; in both the last. The force of Nature conld no further go : To make a third she joined the other two. t We have... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 334 pages
...friends from death 1 Can It soothe the king of terrors, or mitigate the agonies of the dying * VARIETIES. Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy,...thought surpassed ; The next, in majesty ; in both, ihe last. . The force of nature could no further go ; To moke a third, she join'd the former two. Under... | |
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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. 
