 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 326 pages
...did adorn. The firft, in loftinefs of thought furpafs'd ; The next, in majefty ; in both the laft. The force of nature could no further go ; To make a third, (he join'd the former two. XII. On the MONUMENT of a fair Maiden Lady, wht died at Bath, and is there interred. T> ELOW this marble... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 806 pages
...did adorn. The firft, in lofiinefs of thought furpals'd ; | The neit, in majefty; in both the laft. The force of nature could no further go; To make a third, (he join'd the former tw«. XII. On the Monument of a FAIR MAIDEN LADY, WHO DIED AT BATH, AND IS THERE INTERRED. BILOV,-... | |
 | Select epigrams - Epigrams - 1797 - 188 pages
...England did adorn. The firft in loftinefs of thought furpaft, The next in majefty, in both, the laft. The force of nature could no further go ; To make a third, {he join'd the former two. EPIGRAM ON A PIGMY'S DEATH. BY BISHOP SPRAT. BESTRIDE an Ant, a Pigmy great and tall Was thrown, alas... | |
 | 1804 - 512 pages
...TP TO; . H ^u<ri5 c! OTforsf e; a>w nfyvacura, /AEW/VOT, Tov Tf iron (ts^arrEn, TS<TW The Original. 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... | |
 | Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - English poetry - 1806 - 360 pages
...l'expression. Dryden me paraît avoir écouté l'orgueil national plus que la justice , quand il a dit : , , Three poets , in three distant ages born , Greece...England did adorn : The first in loftiness of thought surpass'dr The next in ma jesty , in both the last. The force of nature could no further go : To make... | |
 | Epigrams, English - 1806 - 274 pages
...captain, I'd put on gay looks, " If the judge and the jury to try me were cooks." CCXLVIII. MILTON. 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...Can Stuart or Nassau claim higher? Under MILTON'S PICTURE, before kis PARADISE LOST. (DRYDEN.J THRKE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy,...England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass'dj The next, in majesty; in both the last. The pow'r of Nature could no further go; To make... | |
 | Biography - 1806 - 224 pages
...epigram, constantly prefixed to Para» John Milton. 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... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 506 pages
...jactet sibi Roma Maronem, Anglia Miltonum jactat utrique parem. poets, in three distant ages bori}, Greece, Italy, and England, did adorn. The first,...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. ODES, SONGS,... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 500 pages
...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,... | |
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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. 
