 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
 | Victoria Silver - 2001 - 432 pages
...redemption was possible, by the atonement of a great poem."" Or in Dryden's less ambivalent phrase: 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 farther go; To make... | |
 | Marcie Frank - 2002 - 194 pages
...in the short poem that appeared on the frontispiece for the fourth edition of Paradise Lost (1688): 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... | |
 | John T. Lynch - 2003 - 244 pages
...poetic tradition, it is usually that of the ancient epic poets, as Dryden's epigram of 1688 makes clear: 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... | |
 | J. M. Mathews - 2003 - 400 pages
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 | C. C. Bombaugh - 2003 - 556 pages
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 | McGuffey - 2003 - 484 pages
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 | John Milton - 2003 - 1012 pages
...beneath his portrait in the 1688 edition of Paradise Lost: Three poets, in three distant ages bom, 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... | |
 | Earl Roy Miner, William Moeck, Steven Edward Jablonski - 2004 - 520 pages
...Dryden. He also contributed anonymously some lines on Milton that were printed beneath a portrait. 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... | |
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