 | 1849 - 588 דפים
...Dryden — so far as respects genius and literary taste — Three poets, in three different ages torn, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, The next in beauty, in both the last ; The force of nature could no farther go, To make a third she joined the... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1863 - 1194 דפים
...lines, assigned him the superiority over all ancient and modem bards. " Three poets," says he — - in three distant ages born Greece, Italy, and England did adorn ; The firit in loftiness of thought lurpaised ; The next in majesty ; in both the lafit. The force of nature... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 דפים
...The way which thou so well hast learnt below. [0» îfiltm.] Three poets, in three distant ages bom, t as they keep, Entice the dewy-featherM sleep : And let some strange m surpass'd, The next in majesty ; in both the last. The force of nature could no further go ; To make... | |
 | Alexander Campbell, Charles Louis Loos - 1850 - 734 דפים
...antiquity, when t>e& forth in a good suit of Anglo-Saxon words. Ae Dryden said of Homer, Virgil and Milton — Three poets, in three distant ages born,...The next in majesty, in both the last; The force of nalurecould no farther go — To make a third, ahe joined the former two. So we may say, with more... | |
 | Truman Rickard, Hiram Orcutt - 1850 - 130 דפים
...eternal home \ Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. Three poets, in three distant ages born, > Greece,...surpassed, The next in majesty, in both the last. EXERCISE XII. Death of Adam and Eve. — MONTGOMERY. The sun in summer majesty on high, Darted his... | |
 | John Milton, James Prendeville - 1850 - 452 דפים
...him. made the foregoing observation is most natural, as he was the author of the famous epigram — "Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece,...The first in loftiness of thought surpassed ; The second in dignity ; in both the last. The force of nature could no farther go ; To make the third,... | |
 | 1850 - 590 דפים
...antiquity, when set forth in a good suit of Anglo-Saxon words. As Dryden said of Homer, Virgil, and Milton : " Three poets in three distant ages born...England, did adorn : The first in loftiness of thought surpast, The next in beauty, both the last : The force of Nature could no further go, To make a third... | |
 | 318 דפים
...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 1.599,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 דפים
...shall go, As harbinger of heaven, the way to show, The way which thou so well hast learnt below. [On adom. The first in loftiness of thought surpassM, The next in majesty ; in both the liwt. The force... | |
 | Edward Litt L. Blanchard - 1851 - 324 דפים
...encircled by a serpent holding an apple. Itis peculiarly suggestive of Dryden's graceful panegyric : — " Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy,...The force of nature could no farther go ; To make the third she joined the other two." BEN JONSON (d. 1237). This monument, which was not erected until... | |
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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. 
