| Charles P. Bronson - 1845 - 438 pages
...t Can il soothe the king of terrors, or mitígale the agonies oftlie dying? VARIETIES. Three poels, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England...thought surpassed ; The next, in majesty ; In both, the last. The force of nature could no further go ; To moke a ilnnl, *ln> join'd the former two. Under... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...live to Thee. Doddridge. II. LINES UNDER MILTON'S PORTRAIT. THREE poets in three distant ages horn, Greece, Italy, and England, did adorn. The first in...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.... | |
| Old Humphrey - 1845 - 298 pages
...Milton moulders. Dryden's fines on the three great poets, Homer, Virgil, and Milton, are well known.. " Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn; The first in majesty of thought surpass'd, The next in gracefulness ; in both, the last. The force of nature could... | |
| 1846 - 844 pages
...poem because it was not the first, a description which reminds us of Dryden's clever epigram : — 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... | |
| 1847 - 334 pages
...if he, with English pride, goes muttering on his way the lines now cut into the corner stone : — " 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 form the last she joined the other two.' That church,... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...harbinger of heaven, the way to show, The way which thou so well hast learnt below. — [On Milton.] ge. He gave UH this eternal spring surpass'd, The next in majesty ; in IxHh the ¡.MI . The force of nature could no further go ; To make... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...hast learnt below. [On Milton.] Tin iv poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and F.ngland 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 join'd the other two. To my Honoured... | |
| David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...we cannot do better than to conclude what we would say with the following stanza : — ON MILTON. " 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 joined the other two " 41. Every... | |
| James Boswell - 1848 - 1798 pages
...hundred can expect a poet in a hundred generations." He then repeated Dryden's celebrated lines, " i QN< UƉ ^2Ţ ." Yb a6 v( g ޒaIun 3 ^ N| r... J;Tj I $z `l-3 ^ T w7th Rp 8 Nr surpass'd ; The next, in majesty ; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make... | |
| Richmal Mangnall - 1848 - 498 pages
...best portrayed in Dryden's celebrated stanzas, written under Milton's picture, which are subjoined : " 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 farther go, To... | |
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