 | 1851 - 492 pages
...and on the outside of the church, a tablet with the following inscription has been placed ; — •' 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 make... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - 1852 - 458 pages
...and the ancients too." Subsequently he recorded his praise in verse. " Three poets in three different ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn :...thought surpassed ; The next in Majesty ; in both the last. The force of nature could no farther go ; To make a third she joined the other two." The universal... | |
 | Bengal council of educ - 1852 - 348 pages
...horror that and thilling fears, Or ope the sacred source of sympathetic tears.' " Answer 9th.— " Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy...England did adorn, 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... | |
 | Edwin Owen Jones - 1853 - 258 pages
...great author the merit of having combined the beauties of his most illustrious predecessors : — " 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 farther go ; To make a third, she joined the former two." That the... | |
 | 1853 - 748 pages
...[Shakspeare's King Lear, Act IV. Sc. 1.] Quotation wanted. — Who is the author of the following lines ? — " 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 former two." Of course... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1854 - 630 pages
...popularity. The time immediately following produced Dryden's well known epigram :— " Three poets, iu 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 make a third she joined the other two." I cannot... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1854 - 440 pages
...we eanno' do better than to conclude what we would say with the following stanza : — ON MILTON. " Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy,...adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed j The next in majesty ; in both the last ; The force of nature could no further go ; To make a third,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1854 - 324 pages
...umjactat utrique parem. Cowper translated Dryden's lines into Latin.] Poets in three distant ages born, J- 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. ON THE... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 pages
...As harbinger of heaven, the way to show, The way which tliou so well hast learnt below. ON MILTON. 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 202 pages
...poets who are accounted perfect ; whom it were a kind of treason to find fault with." — CARLYLE. "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." DRYDs.X.... | |
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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. 
