 | Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare - 1848 - 426 oldal
...thoughts into so small a space, than are crowded into its last four lines. Does the reader remember it ? Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy,...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... | |
 | 1849 - 588 oldal
...Dryden — so far as respects genius and literary taste — Three poets, in three different ages torn, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, The next in beauty, in both the last ; The force of nature could no farther go, To make a third she joined the... | |
 | Alexander Campbell, Charles Louis Loos - 1850 - 734 oldal
...when t>e& forth in a good suit of Anglo-Saxon words. Ae Dryden said of Homer, Virgil and Milton — Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy...thought surpassed; . The next in majesty, in both the last; The force of nalurecould no farther go — To make a third, ahe joined the former two. So we... | |
 | Truman Rickard, Hiram Orcutt - 1850 - 130 oldal
...eternal home \ Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. Three poets, in three distant ages born, > Greece,...thought surpassed, The next in majesty, in both the last. EXERCISE XII. Death of Adam and Eve. — MONTGOMERY. The sun in summer majesty on high, Darted... | |
 | John Milton, James Prendeville - 1850 - 452 oldal
...him. made the foregoing observation is most natural, as he was the author of the famous epigram — "Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece,...The first in loftiness of thought surpassed ; The second in dignity ; in both the last. The force of nature could no farther go ; To make the third,... | |
 | 1850 - 590 oldal
...when set forth in a good suit of Anglo-Saxon words. As Dryden said of Homer, Virgil, and Milton : " Three poets in three distant ages born — Greece,...England, did adorn : The first in loftiness of thought surpast, The next in beauty, both the last : The force of Nature could no further go, To make a third... | |
 | Edward Litt L. Blanchard - 1851 - 324 oldal
...encircled by a serpent holding an apple. Itis peculiarly suggestive of Dryden's graceful panegyric : — " 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 the third she joined the other two." BEN... | |
 | James Boswell - 1851 - 410 oldal
...hundred can expect a poet in a hundred generations." He then repeated Dryden's celebrated 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 other two." and a part... | |
 | 1851 - 502 oldal
...the following passage, and parse the, words printed in italics. To what three poets does it refer ? 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 mahe a third she joined the other two. (Drydeu. SECTION... | |
 | John Milton - 1851 - 554 oldal
...Dryden was by no means extravagant in the praise which he bestowed upon it in his well-known 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 other two." Its praise... | |
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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. 
