 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 other two.  THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D - Page 66by JAMES BOSWELL - 1892Full view - About this book
 | James Chapman - 378 pages
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 | 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...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 — To... | |
 | John Dryden - 1978 - 668 pages
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 | A. N. Wilson - 1983 - 296 pages
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 | Samuel Johnson - 1984 - 436 pages
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