 | Joseph Payne - 1859 - 512 pages
...both united be ; I live in pleasure when I live to Thee. Doddridge. II. LINES UNDER MILTON'S PORTRAIT. 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. Dryden. m.... | |
 | Richmal Mangnall - 1859 - 590 pages
...best portrayed in Dryden's celebrated verses, written under Milton's picture, which we subjoin : — 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... | |
 | Richmal Mangnall - 1859 - 622 pages
...portrayed in Dryden's celebrated verses, written under Milton's picture, which we subjoin: — Three<ioets 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 make... | |
 | John Milton - 1860 - 134 pages
...portrait in the handsome folio edition of Paradise Lost, which was published by subscription in 1680 : — "Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece,...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." Poetical... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 434 pages
...generations." He then repeated Dryden's celebrated lines, " 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 other two." and a part... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 960 pages
...wrong. He would have to say, ' Here I am amongst barbarians, who not only refuse to do justice, but " 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... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1860 - 538 pages
...Miltonum joctat utrique parem. DRYDEN'S AMPLIFICATION. Three pcets in three distant nges born, Greeee, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness...thought surpassed; The next, in majesty ; in both, the last. The force of nature could no further go : To make a third, sho joined the former twe. t The following... | |
 | Edward Litt L. Blanchard - 1860 - 336 pages
...encircled by a serpent holding an apple. It is peculiarly suggestive of Dryden's graceful panegyric : — " 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... | |
 | Henry William Dulcken - 1860 - 230 pages
...the sweetness of Virgil, for it was of him that the apt and oft-quoted lines were written: — • " Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn ; The first in majesty of thought surpassed, The next in sweetness, and in both the last. The force of Nature could... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1861 - 570 pages
...has declared that the world has only seen three great epic poets. No less a poet than Dry den says " Three Poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy,...thought surpassed ; The next in majesty ; in both the iast; The force of Nature could no farther go, To make the third, she joined the forner two.'' But... | |
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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. 
