 | Old Humphrey - 1855 - 304 페이지
...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 페이지
...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,... | |
 | John Timbs - 1856 - 374 페이지
...the void, hy some rude shock we're broke. And all our boasted fire is lost in smoke. Congreve. MLXXI. 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 jcin'd the former two. Under a... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 페이지
...that one hunting, which the devil design'd For one fair female, lost him half the kind. On Milton. 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. JOHN BUNYAN.... | |
 | 1856 - 372 페이지
...the void, by some rude shock we're broke, And all our boasted fire is lost in smoke. Congreve. MLXXL 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 join'd the former two. Under a... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 페이지
...As harbinger of heaven, the way to show, The ivay 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 both the last. The force of nature could no further go; To make... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1856 - 518 페이지
...Doddridge, II. LINES UNDER MILTON'S PORTRAIT. THREE poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italv, 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. Dryden.... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1857 - 394 페이지
...earth, busy and blind, Works all her folly up, and casts it outward To the world's open view. ON MILTON. 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. PRIOft. THE... | |
 | William Dowe - 1857 - 272 페이지
...as just as the original, but have not the tautology of " loftiness" and "majesty." " Three orators, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England...first, in loftiness of thought, surpassed, The next, in language, and, in both, the last. The force of nature could no further go, To make the last, she joined... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 780 페이지
...go, As harbinger of heaven, the way to show, The way which thou so well hast learnl 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... | |
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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. 
