 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pages
...And all our boasted fire is lost in smoke. Congreee. MLXXI. Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England, did adorn. The first,...of nature could no further go; To make a third, she join'd the former two. Under a portrait of Milton — Dryden. MLXXII. Must not that man be abandoned... | |
 | 1830 - 542 pages
...should meet in the minds of the same individuals, anti-celtic prejudice, and pride of Celtic birth ! " The force of nature could no further go, To make a third she joined the former two." Yet, notwithstanding what we have said, we are far from feeling disrespect for the present... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England, did adorn, The first in loftiness of thought surThe next in majesty; in both the last, The force of nature...could no further go; To make a third, she joined the former two. [From lieligio Laici.] THE LIGHT OF REASON. Dm as the borrowed beams of moon and stars... | |
 | Joseph Ivimey - 1833 - 320 pages
...considered as a poet, than in the well-known words of Dryden : — " Three Poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England, did adorn : The first...could no further go : To make a third, she joined the former two." Mention has been made of the withdrawment of MILTON at the time of the plague, in 1666,... | |
 | Joseph Ivimey - 1833 - 430 pages
...England, did adorn: The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty; in both the lastThe force of nature could no further go : To make a third, she joined the former two." Mention has been made of the withdrawment of MILTON at the time of the plague, in 1666,... | |
 | Mary Martha Rodwell - 1834 - 424 pages
...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...could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two." BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. Boundaries. — Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire Middlesex,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 350 pages
...and but two rivals; yet of whose rivalry Dryden, in that first of epigrams, happily observes — " The force of Nature could no further go — To make a third shejoin'd the former two." No apology therefore is needed for now proposing a new and splendidly-embellished... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 478 pages
...England did adorn. The first, in loftiness of thought surpass'd ; The next, in majesty ; in hoth the hut. The force of nature could no further go ; To make a third, she join'd the former two. MONUMENT OF A FAIR MAIDEN LADY, WHO DtED AT RATH, AMi tS THERE iit TEHEED.*... | |
 | Hannah More - 1838 - 472 pages
...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...Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she join'd the other two." Yet, seek where'er you will, you'll never find A richer intellect — a loftier... | |
 | Henry Thompson - 1838 - 452 pages
...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...Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she join'd the other two." BB 2 Yet, seek where'er you will, you'll never find A richer intellect — a... | |
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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. 
