 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.  London as it is to-day - Сторінка 501851Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
 | Charles P. Bronson - 1845 - 438 стор.
...t Can il soothe the king of terrors, or mitígale the agonies oftlie dying? VARIETIES. Three poels, 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... | |
 | Old Humphrey - 1845 - 298 стор.
...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 стор.
...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... | |
 | 1876 - 818 стор.
...outside wall recorded the date of his death, and the following inscription by the poet Dryden : — " Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn ; The lint in loftiness of thought surpast ; The next in majesty ; in both the last. The force of nature... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 стор.
...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 loftiness of thought surpassed ; The next in majesty ; in both the last. The force of nature could no further go , To make... | |
 | 1846 - 844 стор.
...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... | |
 | Johann Gustav Droysen - 1846 - 1246 стор.
...England, Scotland, did adorn, The first in zeal, in ardent zeal surpass'd The neit in firmness, and in both the last, The force of nature could no farther go, To make a third she join'd the former two. unter iljrem neuen SBefeblefjaber , bem ЬепПфеп <5ir 3of)n... | |
 | 1847 - 334 стор.
...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,...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 form... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 стор.
...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 стор.
...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... | |
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