| 1830 - 550 pages
...imitated (perhaps unintentionally) by Dryden, in his celebrated encomium on Milton; beginning — " Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy,...and England did adorn ; The first in loftiness of thougbt surpass'd; The next in majesty— in both tlie last. The force of Nature could no farther go... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...And Music shall untune the sky. VNDER THE PORTRAIT OF JOHN MILTON. [Prefixed to " Paradise Lost."] THREE poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy,...England, did adorn, The first in loftiness of thought surThe next in majesty; in both the last, The force of nature could no further go; To make a third,... | |
| Joseph Ivimey - 1833 - 320 pages
...juster de scription of MILTON, considered as a poet, than in the well-known words of Dryden : — " Three Poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy,...in majesty ; in both the last. The force of nature could no further go : To make a third, she joined the former two." Mention has been made of the withdrawment... | |
| Joseph Ivimey - 1833 - 430 pages
...and juster description of MILTON, considered as a poet, than in the well-known words of Dryden :— " Three Poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy,...thought surpassed; The next in majesty; in both the lastThe force of nature could no further go : To make a third, she joined the former two." Mention... | |
| Mary Martha Rodwell - 1834 - 424 pages
...employed one of his daughters as his amanuensis : his character is thus portrayed by Dryden : — " 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... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - 1835 - 414 pages
...subject there is as much of truth as there is of enthusiasm, in the following epigram of Dryden. ' Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy,...majesty ; — in both, the last. The force of nature could no farther go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.' 'this connexion is, that essayists... | |
| John Milton - 1835 - 350 pages
...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 a third, she join'd the former two. ADDISON.f BUT Milton next, with high... | |
| William Cowper - 1836 - 384 pages
...paternos Eja age in aniplexus, cara Maria, redi. Page 183. " Dryden's illustrious epitaph 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 farther go, To make... | |
| 1836 - 558 pages
...thy theme, sublime, In number, weight, and measure, needs not rhyme. EPIGRAM ON MILTON. BY DRYDEN. THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England, did adorn: Tin ih>I in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature... | |
| William Cowper - 1836 - 388 pages
...distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and Kngland 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, I i• ! Jn.• To make a third she join'd the other two. • , i ... „ .. Page... | |
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