 | Edwin Owen Jones - 1853 - 258 oldal
...great author the merit of having combined the beauties of his most illustrious predecessors : — " Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy,...thought surpassed, The next, in majesty ; in both, the last. The force of nature could no farther go ; To make a third, she joined the former two." That the... | |
 | 1853 - 748 oldal
...[Shakspeare's King Lear, Act IV. Sc. 1.] Quotation wanted. — Who is the author of the following lines ? — " Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy,...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." Of course... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1854 - 630 oldal
...popularity. The time immediately following produced Dryden's well known epigram :— " Three poets, iu three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England...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 other two." I cannot... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1854 - 440 oldal
...we eanno' do better than to conclude what we would say with the following stanza : — ON MILTON. " Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy,...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,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1854 - 324 oldal
...umjactat utrique parem. Cowper translated Dryden's lines into Latin.] Poets in three distant ages born, J- Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first, in...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. ON THE... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 oldal
...As harbinger of heaven, the way to show, The way which tliou so well hast learnt below. ON MILTON. Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy,...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... | |
 | John Dryden - 1853 - 602 oldal
[ Sajnáljuk, az oldal tartalma korlátozott hozzáférésű. ] | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 202 oldal
...poets who are accounted perfect ; whom it were a kind of treason to find fault with." — CARLYLE. "Three poets in three distant ages born Greece, Italy,...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 other two." DRYDs.X.... | |
 | Old Humphrey - 1855 - 304 oldal
...Milton moulders. Dryden's lines on the three great poets, Homer, Virgil, and Milton, are well known. " Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn ; The first in majesty of thought surpaas'd, The next in gracefulness ; in both, the last. The force of nature could... | |
 | 1855 - 662 oldal
...POETRY. the highest genins of poetry. Of Homer, Virgil, and Milton, Dryden has said — " Three pocts in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thonght surpassed, The next in majesty, in both the last : The force of nature conld no further go,... | |
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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. 
