 | John Lettsom Elliot - 1850 - 110 pages
...and Graham, as Dryden says of Milton, with regard to Homer and Virgil ? " The force of Nature could no further go : To make a third, she joined the other two." PROTECTION. Well, I confess, that never occurred to me before. But, at all events, I repeat, that,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 pages
...As harbinger of heaven, the way to show, The way which thou so well hast learnt below. [On Milton.'] adom. The first in loftiness of thought surpassM, The next in majesty ; in both the liwt. The force... | |
 | 318 pages
...buried in St. Giles's, Cripplegate, having had three wives. me nrst in loftiness of thought surpas: 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. — DRTDEN. OLIVER CROMWELL was born... | |
 | James Boswell - 1851 - 410 pages
...hundred can expect a poet in a hundred generations." He then repeated Dryden's celebrated lines, " 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." and a part of a Latin translation of... | |
 | Edward Litt L. Blanchard - 1851 - 324 pages
...encircled by a serpent holding an apple. Itis peculiarly suggestive of Dryden's graceful panegyric : — " Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy,...majesty, in both the last — The force of nature could no farther go ; To make the third she joined the other two." BEN JONSON (d. 1237). This monument,... | |
 | 1851 - 502 pages
...the following passage, and parse the, words printed in italics. To what three poets does it refer ? Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy,...in majesty, in both the last ,The force of nature could no further go, To mahe a third she joined the other two. (Drydeu. SECTION IV.—Paraphrase one... | |
 | John Milton - 1851 - 554 pages
...Dryden was by no means extravagant in the praise which he bestowed upon it in his well-known lines ; " 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." Its praise is often on the lips of... | |
 | 1851 - 492 pages
...and on the outside of the church, a tablet with the following inscription has been placed ; — •' 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 Cowper - 1851 - 790 pages
...distant ares born, tirei'Cf. IliUv. and England did adorn. The lir«t in loftjues* of thought curpass'd; 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. liant subject. It is not when I will,... | |
 | James Chapman - 378 pages
...hundred ways with two. p' pp P , P' r P P'PP* 4. Three poets ui three distant ages born, P' PPPPPPPP P' Greece, Italy, and England did adorn : The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd, , PPP P. PPP P', P PThe next in majesty, in both the last. „ P P' PPPP , , P /' , P P'... | |
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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. 
