...Dryden's celebrated epigram, constantly prelixed to ParaK '2 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...

...FIRMINO UIDOT, IMPRESSOR UO REI, RUA JACOB, N' l/;. i8a3. Three poets, in three distant ages boro, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpast ; The next in majesty, in both the last. The force .of nature could no further go : To make...

...priores Qua; potuere duos, tertius unus habet : from the famous lines written under Milton's picture : 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 a...

...Muse in marble might express, Is known already: Praise would make him less. Pope's Works. ON 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 further go j To make...

...the void, by some rude shock we're broke, And all our boasted fire is lost in smoke. MLXXI. Congreve. 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 make...

...the void, by some rude shock we're broke, And all our boasted fire is lost in smoke. Congreee. MLXXI. 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 make...

...imitated (perhaps unintentionally) by Dryden, in his celebrated encomium on Milton; beginning — " Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy,...and England did adorn ; The first in loftiness of thougbt surpass'd; The next in majesty— in both tlie last. The force of Nature could no farther go...

...family could not expect a poet but in a hundred generations. " Nay," said Dr. Johnson, " not one family in a hundred can expect a poet in a hundred generations."...celebrated lines, " Three poets in three distant ages bom," &e. and a part of a Latin translation of it done at Oxford': he did not then say by whom. Tour...

...third Earl of Stamford, and wife of George Middleton, of Lenton, Esq. She died in 1780.— ED.] pect a poet in a hundred generations." He then repeated...lines, " Three poets in three distant ages born," fcc. and a part of a Latin translation of it done «l Oxford 1 : he did not then say by whom. He received...

...and juster description of MILTON, considered as a poet, than in the well-known words of Dryden :— " 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 lastThe force of nature could no further go : To make a...