 | Hannah More - 1838 - 472 pages
...seems a sentiment unchaste, Oppos'd to modesty, and genuine taste ; ' See Vignette, chapter ii. » " Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy,...and 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... | |
 | Reymond de Véricour, Louis Raymond de Véricour - 1838 - 448 pages
...orateur, et guerrier distingué, viut un jour au parlement avec les épreuves (i) ON MILTON. Three pools, in three distant ages born , Greece , Italy , and England did adorn , The lirst in loftiness of thought surpast , The iiext in majesty ; in both , the last. The force of nature... | |
 | 1840 - 488 pages
...the three greatest poets that ever lived. The following lines by Dryden speak much in their praise. " Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in majesty of thought surpassed, The next in gracefulness ; — in both, the last. Th€ force of nature... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1840 - 542 pages
...full as just as the original, but have not the tautology of loftiness and majesty : " Three orators in distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn ; The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd, The next in language, but in both the last : The power of Nature could no farther... | |
 | 1840 - 516 pages
...the three greatest poets that ever lived. The following lines by Dryden speak much in their praise. " Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adoru. The first in majesty of thought surpassed, The next in gracefulness ; — in both, the last.... | |
 | 1855 - 630 pages
...lines were written under a picture of Milton, before his " Paradise Lost," in the folio edition : " Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and 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... | |
 | 1851 - 650 pages
...sublimity, there are few who have courted the Muses with equal success in other departments of poesy. 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 conld no further go... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 334 pages
...friends from death 1 Can It soothe the king of terrors, or mitigate the agonies of the dying * VARIETIES. 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, ihe last. . The force of nature could no further... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 396 pages
...friends from death? Can il soothe the king of terrors, or mitigate the agonies of the dying? VAB1ETIES. 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 lust. The force of nature could no further... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 390 pages
...friends from death 1 Can it soothe the king of terrors, or mitigate the agonies of the dying? VARIETIES. Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftineaa of thought surpassed ; The next, in majesty ; in both, the last. The force of nature could... | |
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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 former two. 
