 | 1857
...then been perfected by the great Bach, whose works are almost as little known as those of Purcell. " The force of nature could no further go : To make a third she joined the former two." Handel united the English and the German styles, and was also influenced... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1857 - 384 σελίδες
...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. PRIOft. THE reign of Queen Anne was at one time styled the Augustan age of... | |
 | Henry William Dulcken - 1860
...did adorn ; The first in majesty of thought surpassed, The next in sweetness, and in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go, To make a third, she joined the other two." Sold for a pittance of fifteen pounds, neglected by the vitiated taste of... | |
 | John Milton - 1917 - 625 σελίδες
...England did adorn. The first in loftiness of mind 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." Even before these lines were written the habit of comparing Milton with... | |
 | Joseph Friedlander, George Alexander Kohut - 1917 - 820 σελίδες
...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 join'd the former two." But he said nothing of Hebrew poetry. Probably he had in mind that the... | |
 | 1919
...borrow an expression from Dryden's famous, though rather cheap, epigram on Homer, Virgil, and Milton : The force of nature could no further go: To make a third she joined the former two. Thus, from our place in history, it would seem that the turning-point in... | |
 | John Milton - 1892 - 618 σελίδες
...England did adorn. The first in loftiness of mind 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." Even before these lines were written the habit of comparing Milton with... | |
 | Thomas Goddard Wright - 1920 - 322 σελίδες
...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. then we have another evidence of acquaintance with Milton's « Ibid., i.... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922
...England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd; The next, in majesty; in both, the last. A mere madness, to live like a wretch, and die rich. BUBT she join'd the former two. DRYDEN — Under Mr. Milton's Picture. Homer, Virgil, Milton. (See also... | |
 | Carolyn Wells - 1923 - 782 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. The original of these fine lines was probably a Latin distich written by... | |
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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. 
