 | John Broadbent - Literary Criticism - 1972 - 198 pages
...engravings after the Spanish artist Medina, and a new portrait engraving with a poem by Dryden under it: Three poets in three distant ages born Greece, Italy...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 other two. That edition... | |
 | Robert Bridges - Church music - 870 pages
...did John Dryden mnn uflien, after ntdinj disc Lost, ht wrote vnder Milton's portrat die known verstf? 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... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1881 - 468 pages
...wrote the following in regard to Milton, while the great Epic Poet was still in " dim eclipse :" — " Three Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy...thought surpassed ; The next in majesty ; in both the last. The force of nature could no farther go — To make a third, she joined the former two." The... | |
 | Joseph M. Levine - History - 1991 - 452 pages
...poems, as in Dryden's famous epigram that adorned the 1688 edition: Three Poets, in three different ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The...thought surpassed; The next in majesty; in both the last. To make a third, she joined the former two.17 Of course, the comparison had inspired Milton himself,... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...way to live, by dying. LiTB; OBEV; QFR; SeCV-2 Lines Printed under the Engraved Portrait of Milton 10 . last: The force of Nature could no farther go; To make a third she joined the former two. (1. 1—6)... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - English poetry - 1995 - 292 pages
...Dryden, 'Epigram' (1688), printed beneath Milton's portrait in Paradise Lost, ed. Jacob Tonson (i< Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy,...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. 38. Comment... | |
 | Gerald M. MacLean - History - 1995 - 314 pages
...strong writing, perhaps even literary histories of a slightly Whiggish cast,2 have so long determined 1 "Three Poets, in three distant Ages born, / Greece,...England did adorn. / The First in loftiness of thought Surpass'd; / The Next in Majesty; in both the Last. / The force of Nature cou'd no farther goe: / To... | |
 | William Riley Parker - Poets, English - 1996 - 708 pages
...than the then poet laureate, in a conventionally extravagant epigram, who first made the nomination: Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy,...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. When Dryden... | |
 | Richard Gameson, Nigel J. Morgan, D. F. McKenzie, Lotte Hellinga, John Barnard, Rodney M. Thomson, Joseph Burney Trapp, Maureen Bell, David McKitterick - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1998 - 964 pages
...Similes, and Speeches.' Milton's epic had been given the status of a classic. Dryden commended Milton: 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 cou'dno farther goe: To make... | |
 | Suvir Kaul - History - 2000 - 358 pages
...Dryden's brief "Lines on Milton" (1688) echo this sentiment and embody it in the figure of Milton: 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 cou'd no farther goe: To make... | |
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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. 
