 | John Milton - 1855 - 202 pages
...poets who are accounted perfect ; whom it were a kind of treason to find fault with." — CARLYLE. "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... | |
 | Old Humphrey - 1855 - 304 pages
...Milton moulders. Dryden's lines 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 surpaas'd, The next in gracefulness ; in both, the last. The force of nature could... | |
 | Churches of Christ - 1855 - 662 pages
...POETRY. the highest genins of poetry. Of Homer, Virgil, and Milton, Dryden has said — " Three pocts in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thonght surpassed, The next in majesty, in both the last : The force of nature conld no further go,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 pages
...As harbinger of heaven, the way to show, The ivay which thou so well hast learnt below. ON MILTON. 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 further go;... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...that one hunting, which the devil design'd For one fair female, lost him half the kind. 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 ;... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 372 pages
...the void, by some rude shock we're broke, And all our boasted fire is lost in smoke. Congreve. MLXXL 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... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 374 pages
...the void, hy some rude shock we're broke. And all our boasted fire is lost in smoke. Congreve. MLXXI. 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... | |
 | 1856 - 418 pages
...Milton's " Puradise Lost." Such is the perfection of these poems that they form a class by themselves. " Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn." The formation of our hermit, from the Greek eremites, illustrates the change which words undergo in passing... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1857 - 394 pages
...earth, busy and blind, Works all her folly up, and casts it outward To the world's open view. 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;... | |
 | William Dowe - 1857 - 272 pages
...as just as the original, but have not the tautology of " loftiness" and "majesty." " Three orators, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first, in loftiness of thought, surpassed, The next, in language, and, in both, the last. The force of nature could no further... | |
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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. 
