 | 1846 - 844 דפים
...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 דפים
...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,...— 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 may see... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 דפים
...hast learnt below. [On Milton.] Tin iv poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and F.ngland further go ; To make a third, she join'd the other two. To my Honoured Kinsman, John Dryden, Esq. of... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 דפים
...go, As harbinger of heaven, the way to show, The way which thou so well hast learnt below. — [On lates' rage. 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 דפים
...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 דפים
...open. Perhaps we cannot do better than to conclude what we would say with the following stanza : — ON MILTON. " Three poets in three distant ages born,...; 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 own Fortune.... | |
 | Richmal Mangnall - 1848 - 498 דפים
...best portrayed in Dryden's celebrated stanzas, written under Milton's picture, which are subjoined : " 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 1798 דפים
...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... | |
 | Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare - 1848 - 426 דפים
...thoughts into so small a space, than are crowded into its last four lines. Does the reader remember it ? 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 further go : To make... | |
 | 1894 - 668 דפים
...distant Agei bora, Qreece, Italy, and England, did adorn. The First in Loftiness of Thought «urpaset, The next in Majesty ;—in both, the Last :— The force of Nature could no farther go To make a Third,—She joined the former two. JOHK T. PAGE. A SHOWSB OF FROGS (8 th S. vi. 101, 189).— Various... | |
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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. 
