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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. "
The Methodist new connexion magazine and evangelical repository - Page 349
1851
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Studies in English poetry [an anthology] with biogr. sketches and notes by J ...

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...in majesty ; in both the last. The force of nature could no further go , To make a third, she joined the former two. Dryden. III. HOPE. THE wretch, condemned...
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Old Humphrey's Walks in London and Its Neighbourhood

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...
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Elocution, Or, Mental and Vocal Philosophy: Involving the Principles of ...

C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 390 pages
...friends from death 1 Can it soothe the king of terrors, or mitigate the agonies of the dying? VARIETIES. Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftineaa of thought surpassed ; The next, in majesty ; in both, the last. The force of nature could...
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The Ecclesiastic [afterw.] The Theologian and ecclesiastic ..., Volumes 1-2

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...
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Summer excursions in ... Kent, along the banks of the rivers Thames and Medway

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,...majesty — in both the last: The force of Nature could no further go, To form the last she joined the other two.' That church, whose brick tower you...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...hast learnt below. [On Milton.] Tin iv poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and F.ngland could no further go ; To make a third, she join'd the other two. To my Honoured Kinsman, John Dryden,...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: First period, from the earliest times to 1400

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...
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A critique on the critics; or, The Britannia, Athenæum, and clique unmasked

William Richard Harris (writer of verse.) - 1847 - 80 pages
...on?"—"No!"—Churton's Literary Rtgigter. Napoleon : an Epic Poem. By William Richard Harris. Longman & Co. " Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn." So sung a rhymer in the last century. Had he lived to our time, he would have added— " But lo ! a...
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North American First Class Reader: The Sixth Book of Tower's Series for ...

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,...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 Man the Architect of his...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Their Tour to the Hebrides

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...
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