...'Nay,' said Dr Johnson, 'not one family in a hundred can expect a poet in a hundred generations. 1 He then repeated Dryden's celebrated lines, Three poets in three distant ages born, and a part of a Latin translation of it done at Oxford: he did not then say by whom.* [* London, 2d...

...叶山e 协由而抑血gwoI 心够427 cur at the ends of lines, it is called end rhyme. For example, "Three poets, in three distant ages born, / Greece, Italy, and England did adom. " End rhyme is the commonest and most consciously sought-after sound repetition in English poetry....

...most famously in his lines on Paradise Lost that were attached prominently to Tonson's 1688 edition: "Three Poets, in three distant Ages born, Greece, Italy and England did adorn." 3 The surprising elevation of Milton to unmatched classical poet detaches his former contemporary from...