 | 1893
...England did adorn. The first in grace and loveliness surpassed ; In wit the second, and in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two. Had Troy still been, more worlds bad strewn her plain, Had Charles still... | |
 | ...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, near the banks of the Ouse,... | |
 | John Lettsom Elliot - 1850 - 100 σελίδες
...make this fusion of Peel and Graham, as Dryden says of Milton, with regard to Homer and Virgil ? " The force of Nature could no further go : To make a third, she joined the other two." PROTECTION. Well, I confess, that never occurred to me before. But, at all... | |
 | 1850
...England, did adorn : The first in loftiness of thought surpast, The next in beauty, both the last : The force of Nature could no further go, To make a third she joined the other two :" so we may say, with more than equal truth, the " force of nature" has not... | |
 | James Boswell - 1851
...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." and a part of a Latin translation of it done at Oxford,* he did not then... | |
 | William Cowper - 1851 - 749 σελίδες
...England did adorn. The lir«t in loftjues* of thought curpass'd; 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. liant subject. It is not when I will, nor upon what I will, but as a thought... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1852
...Committee; but a Bill was drawn up and compounded of the two Bills, reminding him of the quotation — " The force of nature could no further go ; To make a third she joined the other two." That Bill was, he said, adopted by the Government, and received the sanction... | |
 | Bengal council of educ - 1852
...England did adorn, The first in loftiness of thought surpnst, 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. In the fifth verse Thomson promises to write such lyric poetry... | |
 | John Dryden - 1853 - 664 σελίδες
...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 former two. 294 TALES FROM CHAUCER: PALAMON AND ARCITE. THE COCK AND THE FOX. THE FLOWER... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1854
...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." I cannot paiise to criticise this dictum, which, to say the least, is far... | |
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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. 
