 | 1855 - 662 pages
...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,... | |
 | Old Humphrey - 1855 - 304 pages
...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... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - 1855 - 508 pages
...as it is usual to find in such pointed criticism : — ON MILTON. " Three poets in three different ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of soul surpassed, The next in majesty, in both the last. The force of nature could no further go ; To... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 pages
...shall go, 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,...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... | |
 | 1856 - 418 pages
...Milton's " Puradise Lost." Such is the perfection of these poems that they form a class by themselves. " Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn." The formation of our hermit, from the Greek eremites, illustrates the change which words undergo in passing... | |
 | William Dowe - 1857 - 272 pages
...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 - 1848 - 786 pages
...show, The way which thou so well hast learnt below. ON MILTON. Three poets, in three distant ages bora, 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 780 pages
...shall 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,...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... | |
 | Richmal Mangnall - 1859 - 590 pages
...best portrayed in Dryden's celebrated verses, written under Milton's picture, which we subjoin : — 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 farther go, — To... | |
 | Richmal Mangnall - 1859 - 622 pages
...portrayed in Dryden's celebrated verses, written under Milton's picture, which we subjoin: — Three<ioets 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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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 farther go ; To make a third she joined the former two. 
