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
| John Milton - 1851 - 554 pages
...merit. Dryden was by no means extravagant in the praise which he bestowed upon it in his well-known lines ; " Three poets in three distant ages born,...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... | |
| Edward Litt L. Blanchard - 1851 - 324 pages
...encircled by a serpent holding an apple. Itis peculiarly suggestive of Dryden's graceful panegyric : " 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 make... | |
| 1851 - 502 pages
...the following passage, and parse the, words printed in italics. To what three poets does it refer ? 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 mahe... | |
| 1851 - 492 pages
...and on the outside of the church, a tablet with the following inscription has been placed ; ' 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... | |
| Bengal council of educ - 1852 - 348 pages
...horror that and thilling fears, Or ope the sacred source of sympathetic tears.' " Answer 9th. " Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy...England did adorn, The first in loftiness of thought surpnst, The next in majesty, in both the last; The force of nature could no further go, To make a... | |
| Clara Lucas Balfour - 1852 - 458 pages
...and the ancients too." Subsequently he recorded his praise in verse. " Three poets in three different 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 farther go ; To make... | |
| 1853 - 748 pages
...JP [Shakspeare's King Lear, Act IV. Sc. 1.] Quotation wanted. Who is the author of the following lines ? " Three poets in three distant ages born,...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... | |
| Edwin Owen Jones - 1853 - 258 pages
...great author the merit of having combined the beauties of his most illustrious predecessors : " 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 make... | |
| David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1854 - 440 pages
...we eanno' do better than to conclude what we would say with the following stanza : ON MILTON. " Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy,...England, did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed j The next in majesty ; in both the last ; The force of nature could no further go ; To make... | |
| Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1854 - 630 pages
...popularity. The time immediately following produced Dryden's well known epigram : " Three poets, iu 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... | |
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