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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. "
The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected ... - Page 160
by John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808
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The British Martial: Or, An Anthology of English Epigrams: Being ..., Volume 1

1806 - 274 pages
...judge and the jury to try me were cooks." CCXLVIII. MILTON. Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn ; The first in loftiness of thought surpast ; The next in majesty — in both the last. The force of Nature could no farther go ; To make...
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The Poetical Preceptor; Or, A Collection of Select Pieces of Poetry ...

1806 - 408 pages
...Under MILTON'S PICTURE, before kis PARADISE LOST. (DRYDEN.J THRKE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass'dj The next, in majesty; in both the last. The pow'r of Nature could no further go; To make...
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Poétique anglaise, Volume 1

Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - 1806 - 360 pages
...l'orgueil national plus que la justice, quand il a dit : 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 : To make...
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The poets of Great Britain complete from Chaucer to Churchill, Volume 21

John Bell - 1807 - 458 pages
...EPIGRAMMATIC LINES Under MILTON'S Picture before Paradise Lost. rp J HREE poets, in three distant ages bom, Greece, Italy, and England, did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpast ; The next, in majesty ; in both, the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make...
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The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes ..., Volume 11

John Dryden - 1808 - 500 pages
...sibi Roma Maronem, Anglia Miltonum jactat utrique parent. I HREE poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England, did adorn. The first, in loftiness of thought surpassed j The next, in majesty ; in both, the last. The force of nature could no further go ; To make a third,...
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The panorama of wit. Exhibiting the choicest epigrams in the English language

Panorama - 1809 - 368 pages
...distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn ; The 6rst in loftiness of thonght surpast; The next in majesty — in both the last. The force of Nature could no farther go ; To make a third, she join'd the other two. UNIVERSAL COMPLAISANCE. THROUGH servile flattery...
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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical: Illustrative of ..., Volume 2

Nathan Drake - 1810 - 524 pages
...did adorn : Henley in Cure of Souls display'd his skill, Rock shone in Physic, and in both John Hill: The force of Nature could no further go, To make a Third she join'd the former Two. Towards the close of his life fortune smiled upon our adventurer with more permanency...
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Enfield's Guide to Elocution: Improved and Classically Divided Into Six ...

John Sabine - 1810 - 308 pages
...o'er the dstrk' her silver marifle threw. MILTON, O» Milton. Three poets in three distant ages b6rn, Greece, Italy, and England' did adorn : The first...majesty, in both the last. The force of nature could no farther go; To make a third, she join'd the other two. DRYDEN. . *' ^v On Mr. Fenton. ' This modest...
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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical: Illustrative of ..., Volume 2

Nathan Drake - 1810 - 528 pages
...adorn : Henley in Cure of Souls displaj'd his skill, Rock shone in. Physic, and in both John Hill ' The force of Nature could no further go, To make a Third shejoiu'd the former Two. Towards the close of bis life fortune smiled upon our adventurer with more...
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Cowley, Denham, Milton

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 pages
...Providence Divine, " And justify the ways of God to man." FC 1610. 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 farther go: To make...
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