 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - English poetry - 1802 - 152 pages
...contemporaries, and yet has since been placed at the head of English classic literature by Dryden : — " Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy and England did adorn, Homer in loftiness of thought surpass'd, Virgil in majesty, in both the last." " And ever against eating... | |
 | Epigrams, English - 1806 - 274 pages
...Like you, captain, I'd put on gay looks, " If the judge and the jury to try me were cooks." CCXLVIII. MILTON. Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece,...England did adorn ; The first in loftiness of thought surpast ; The next in majesty — in both the last. The force of Nature could no farther go ; To make... | |
 | Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - English poetry - 1806 - 360 pages
...l'expression. Dryden me paraît avoir écouté l'orgueil national plus que la justice , quand il a dit : , , Three poets , in three distant ages born , Greece...England did adorn : The first in loftiness of thought surpass'dr The next in ma jesty , in both the last. The force of nature could no further go : To make... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...Can Stuart or Nassau claim higher? Under MILTON'S PICTURE, before kis PARADISE LOST. (DRYDEN.J THRKE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy,...England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass'dj The next, in majesty; in both the last. The pow'r of Nature could no further go; To make... | |
 | Biography - 1806 - 224 pages
...epigram, constantly prefixed to Para» John Milton. disc Lost, is little more than a translation : 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... | |
 | Select collection - Epitaphs - 1806 - 262 pages
...rose satisfy'd, Thank' d heav'n that he hadliv'd, and that he dy'd. * This plain floor ON JOHN MILTOX. Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn : Thejint in loftiness of thought surpast ; The next in majesty ; in both the last. The force of nature... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 458 pages
...EPIGRAMMATIC LINES Under MILTON'S Picture before Paradise Lost. rp J HREE poets, in three distant ages bom, Greece, Italy, and 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... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 500 pages
...at Rome : Graecia Moeonidem, jactet sibi Roma Maronem, Anglia Miltonum jactat utrique parent. I HREE poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy,...England, did 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... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 506 pages
...jactet sibi Roma Maronem, Anglia Miltonum jactat utrique parem. poets, in three distant ages bori}, 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... | |
 | Panorama - Epigrams, English - 1809 - 368 pages
...race : But I who bless'd like Paris, fear'd his fall, Swore each a Venus was,— and pleas'd them all. MILTON. THREE poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn ; The 6rst in loftiness of thonght surpast; The next in majesty — in both the last. The force of Nature... | |
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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. 
