 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
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 778 pages
...go, As harbinger of heaven, the way to show, The way which thou so well hast learnt below. ON MILTON. Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy,...loftiness of thought surpass'd ; The next in majesty j in both the last. The force of nature could no further go; To make a third, she join'd the other... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 434 pages
...family could not expect a poetbutin 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 horn, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn: The first in loftiness of thought surpassed ; The next... | |
 | 1908 - 396 pages
...Lost' (Dryden, Workf, ed. Scott and Saintsbury, 11. 162) : Three poets, in three distant ages tx>rn, 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... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - 1913 - 972 pages
...truth as it is usual to find in such pointed criticism: "Ox 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 Broadbent - 1972 - 198 pages
...engravings after the Spanish artist Medina, and a new portrait engraving with a poem by Dryden under it: 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... | |
 | Robert Bridges - 870 pages
...did John Dryden mnn uflien, after ntdinj disc Lost, ht wrote vnder Milton's portrat die known verstf? 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 further go; To make... | |
 | James Chapman - 378 pages
...hundred ways with two. p' pp P , P' r P P'PP* 4. Three poets ui three distant ages born, P' PPPPPPPP P' Greece, Italy, and England did adorn : The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd, , PPP P. PPP P', P PThe next in majesty, in both the last. „ P P' PPPP , , P /' , P P' '1 he force... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Joseph M. Levine - 1991 - 452 pages
...poems, as in Dryden's famous epigram that adorned the 1688 edition: 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. To make a third, she joined the former two.17 Of... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...way to live, by dying. LiTB; OBEV; QFR; SeCV-2 Lines Printed under the Engraved Portrait of Milton 10 . surpassed, The next in majesty, in both the last: The force of Nature could no farther go; To make... | |
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