 | John Dryden - 1808 - 500 pages
...at Rome : Graecia Moeonidem, jactet sibi Roma Maronem, Anglia Miltonum jactat utrique parent. I HREE 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,... | |
 | Panorama - 1809 - 368 pages
...I who bless'd like Paris, fear'd his fall, Swore each a Venus was,— and pleas'd them all. MILTON. THREE poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn ; The 6rst in loftiness of thonght surpast; The next in majesty — in both the last. The force of Nature... | |
 | John Sabine - 1810 - 308 pages
...o'er the dstrk' her silver marifle threw. MILTON, O» Milton. Three poets in three distant ages b6rn, Greece, Italy, and England' did adorn : The first...in majesty, in both the last. The force of nature could no farther go; To make a third, she join'd the other two. DRYDEN. . *' ^v On Mr. Fenton. ' This... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 pages
...throne, Trace the dark paths of Providence Divine, " And justify the ways of God to man." FC 1610. 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... | |
 | 1812 - 156 pages
...like a true modern spouse, — For she fled from his arms — to distinguish his brtnvs. CCI. MILTON. Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy,...England did adorn ; The first in loftiness of thought surpast ; The next in majesty — in both the last. The force of nature could no further go ; To make... | |
 | 1813 - 670 pages
...author a rank among the great ornaments of the pulpit, to which * that f' The force of nature could no further go, To make a third, she joined the other two," Panegyric so rash and extravagant as this, we have not before, we believe, hud occasion to reprehend.... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...censure blaze ; But, faith ! tis all in vain we do, The world nor credits me nor you. Milton. DRYDBN. 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... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1816 - 462 pages
...which they can be thrown. JOHN MILTON. Born 1608.—Died 1674. From 5th James /., to 2.5th Charles 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; i» both the. last: The force of Nature could no further go ; To make... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 524 pages
...music." His character as a poet is given in the following lines, written by Dryden under his picture : ' Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy,...England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpast; The next, in majesty ; in both, the last. The force of Nature could no farther go : To make... | |
 | 1820 - 224 pages
...Dryden's celebrated epigram, constantly prelixed to ParaK '2 disc Lost, is little more than a translation. 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... | |
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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. 
