| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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