 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 Dryden - 1854 - 318 pages
...offence, And cruelty and blood was penitence. * Socrates. Orig. Ed. t This couplet recalls Dryden's own lines — ' Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn,' &c. On Milton's Picture. If sheep and oxen could atone for men, Ah! at how cheap a rate the rich might... | |
 | John Relly Beard - 1854 - 368 pages
...Milton's " Paradise Lost." Such is the perfection of these poems that they form a class by themselves. " Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn." The formation of our hermit, from the Greek eremites, illustrates the change which words undergo in passing... | |
 | John Dryden - 1854 - 324 pages
...umjactat utrique parem. Cowper translated Dryden's lines into Latin.] Poets in three distant ages born, J- 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 202 pages
...poets who are accounted perfect ; whom it were a kind of treason to find fault with." — CARLYLE. "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... | |
 | 1855 - 662 pages
...POETRY. the highest genins of poetry. Of Homer, Virgil, and Milton, Dryden has said — " Three pocts in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thonght surpassed, The next in majesty, in both the last : The force of nature conld no further go,... | |
 | Old Humphrey - 1855 - 304 pages
...Milton moulders. Dryden's lines on the three great poets, Homer, Virgil, and Milton, are well known. " Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn ; The first in majesty of thought surpaas'd, The next in gracefulness ; in both, the last. The force of nature could... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - 1855 - 508 pages
...as it is usual to find in such pointed criticism : — ON MILTON. " Three poets in three different ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of soul surpassed, The next in majesty, in both the last. The force of nature could no further go ; To... | |
 | John Timbs - 1856 - 374 pages
...the void, hy some rude shock we're broke. And all our boasted fire is lost in smoke. Congreve. 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... | |
 | 1856 - 372 pages
...the void, by some rude shock we're broke, And all our boasted fire is lost in smoke. Congreve. MLXXL 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... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 pages
...that one hunting, which the devil design'd For one fair female, lost him half the kind. On Milton. 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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