 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...we cannot do better than to conclude what we would say with the following stanza : — ON MILTON. " 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... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1863 - 1194 pages
...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... | |
 | Alexander Campbell, Charles Louis Loos - 1850 - 734 pages
...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, Greece, Italy...and England, did adorn; . The first, in loftiness of thought surpassed; . The next in majesty, in both the last; The force of nalurecould no farther go... | |
 | John Milton, James Prendeville - Bible - 1850 - 452 pages
...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,...and England did adorn : The first in loftiness of thought surpassed ; The second in dignity ; in both the last. The force of nature could no farther... | |
 | Churches of Christ - 1850 - 590 pages
...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 — Greece,...and 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... | |
 | Truman Rickard, Hiram Orcutt - English language - 1850 - 130 pages
...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,...Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, The next in majesty, in both the last. EXERCISE XII. Death of Adam and Eve. —... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1850 - 710 pages
...As harbinger of heaven, the way to show, The way which thou so well hast learnt below. [On Milton.'] adom. The first in loftiness of thought surpassM, The next in majesty ; in both the liwt. The force... | |
 | Edward Litt L. Blanchard - Great Exhibition - 1851 - 324 pages
...encircled by a serpent holding an apple. Itis peculiarly suggestive of Dryden's graceful panegyric : — " 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 farther go... | |
 | 1851 - 492 pages
...and on the outside of the church, a tablet with the following inscription has been placed ; — •' Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy,...and 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,... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1851 - 554 pages
...Dryden was by no means extravagant in the praise which he bestowed upon it in his well-known lines ; " 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... | |
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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. 
