 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 American Bibliopolist - Page 51876Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 pages
...The way which thou so well hast learnt below. [On Hfilion.] Three poets, in three distant ages bom, 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... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 330 pages
...friends from death ? Can it soothe the king of terrors, or mitigate the agonies of the dying 1 VARIETIES. Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy,...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... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 396 pages
...friends from death? Can il soothe the king of terrors, or mitigate the agonies of the dying? VAB1ETIES. Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy,...England 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... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 390 pages
...friends from death 1 Can it soothe the king of terrors, or mitigate the agonies of the dying? VARIETIES. Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftineaa of thought surpassed ; The next, in majesty ; in both, the last. The force of nature could... | |
 | Old Humphrey - 1845 - 298 pages
...Milton moulders. Dryden's fines 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 surpass'd, The next in gracefulness ; in both, the last. The force of nature could... | |
 | 1846 - 844 pages
...poem because it was not the first, a description which reminds us of Dryden's clever epigram : — 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...harbinger of heaven, the way to show, The way which thou 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 IxHh the ¡.MI . The force of nature could no further go ; To make... | |
 | 1847 - 334 pages
...if he, with English pride, goes muttering on his way the lines now cut into the corner stone : — " Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy,...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 form... | |
 | William Richard Harris (writer of verse.) - 1847 - 80 pages
...on?"—"No!"—Churton's Literary Rtgigter. Napoleon : an Epic Poem. By William Richard Harris. Longman & Co. " Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn." So sung a rhymer in the last century. Had he lived to our time, he would have added— " But lo ! a... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...we cannot do better than to conclude what we would say with the following stanza : — ON MILTON. " Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy,...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... | |
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