 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 σελίδες
...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 other two " 41. Every Man the Architect of his own Fortune.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 1798 σελίδες
...distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn : The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd ; lly 4 further go ; To make a third, she join'd the former two :" arnl a part of a Latin translation of it... | |
 | 1894 - 668 σελίδες
...distant Agei bora, Qreece, Italy, and England, did adorn. The First in Loftiness of Thought «urpaset, 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. JOHK T. PAGE. A SHOWSB OF FROGS (8 th S. vi. 101, 189).— Various... | |
 | 1849 - 588 σελίδες
...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 former two. We, indeed, justly claim Milton as the greatest and best of poets, and, perhaps,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 σελίδες
...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 a third, she join'd the other two. To my Honoured Шптпап, John Drydcn, Etq,... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1863 - 1194 σελίδες
...did adorn ; The firit in loftiness of thought lurpaised ; The next in majesty ; in both the lafit. The force of nature could no farther go— To make a third, she joined the former twr?." With this beautifully-expressed testimonial to the merits of John Milton,... | |
 | 1881 - 702 σελίδες
...first in Penury of Thought Fun a=t, In Rumbling Cant the next, in Both the lost; The force of Dulness could no farther go, To make a Third she join'd the former Two." Poor young Pattison died in 1727, at the age of twenty-one, from small-pox, caught whilst living under... | |
 | 318 σελίδες
...buried in St. Giles's, Cripplegate, having had three wives. me nrst in loftiness of thought surpas: 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. — DRTDEN. OLIVER CROMWELL was born 1.599,... | |
 | Edward Litt L. Blanchard - 1851 - 324 σελίδες
...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 the third she joined the other two." BEN JONSON (d. 1237). This monument, which was not erected until... | |
 | 1851 - 492 σελίδες
...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 the third, she joined the former two." John Milton was born in Bread Street, on Friday the 9th day... | |
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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. 
