 | John Dryden - 1808 - 500 דפים
...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,... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 518 דפים
...Italy, and England, did adorn. The Firft in loftinefs of thought furpafs'd ; The Next, in majefty ; in both, the LAST. The force of Nature could no farther go : To make a third, flie join'd the former two. DRYDEN. * This celebrated Epigram of Milton appears under the wcllengraved... | |
 | Panorama - 1809 - 368 דפים
...race : But 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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 דפים
...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 דפים
...behav'd 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,...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... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1816 - 462 דפים
...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 דפים
...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... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 דפים
...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... | |
 | 1820 - 224 דפים
...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... | |
 | 1820 - 230 דפים
...Dryden's celebrated epigram, constantly prefixed to Paradisc 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. 
