 | Henry Thompson - 1838 - 444 pages
...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 a third, she join'd the other two." Yet, seek where'er you will, you'll never find A richer intellect — a loftier mind. Who... | |
 | Henry Thompson - 1838 - 452 pages
...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 a third, she join'd the other two." BB 2 Yet, seek where'er you will, you'll never find A richer intellect — a loftier mind.... | |
 | 1855 - 630 pages
...England did adorn: The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd; The next in majesty ; in both the last. ; and E What height and depth of conception ! What vigour of expression ! How sound and critical the judgment... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 pages
...England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd, The next in majesty ; in both the last. y , ehe join'd the other two. To my Honoured Amman, Jo/i» Dryden, Esq. of Cha* terton, in tlie County... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 330 pages
...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 join'd the former two. Under a portrait of Milton — Dryden. The poetry of earth is never dead! — When all the birds are... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 390 pages
...did adorn. The first in loftineaa of thought surpassed ; The next, in majesty ; in both, the last. The force of nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joln'd the former two. Under a portrait of Milton — Drydcn, The poetry of earth is never dead!—... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...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. Dryden. III. HOPE. THE wretch, condemned with life to part, Still, still on... | |
 | 1876 - 818 pages
...England did adorn ; The lint in loftiness of thought surpast ; The next in majesty ; in both the last. The force of nature could no further go, To make a third she j oin'd the other two : ' ' a rather fanciful epitaph ; after the fashion, however, of those days.... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 396 pages
...did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed ; The next, in majesty ; in both, the lust. The force of nature could no further go ; To make a third, »he join'd the former two. Under a portrait of Milton — Dryden. The poetry of earth is never dead!... | |
 | 1846 - 844 pages
...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 a third she joined the other two. The " Paradise Lost " therefore is a great epic, — and an epic poem is the... | |
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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. 
