 | Thomas De Quincey, David Masson - 1897 - 472 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 farther go : To make a third, she joined the former two." — M. 1 The beauty of this famous epigram lies in the/orm of the conception.... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 452 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 farther go; To make a third she joined the former two. ALEXANDER'S FEAST; OR, THE POWER OF MUSIC A SONG IN HONOR OF ST. CECILIA'S... | |
 | Elizabeth Lee - 1898 - 258 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 farther go ; To make a third she joined the former two. It was Dryden too who said, when he first read Paradise Lost, "this man... | |
 | John Milton - 1903 - 396 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 farther go ; To make a third she joined the former two." Even before these lines were written the habit of comparing Milton with... | |
 | Thomas Wright - 1904 - 724 σελίδες
...adorn : Henley in cure of souls displayed his skill, Hock shone in physic, and in both John Hill ; The force of nature could no farther go, To make a third she join'd the other two." Of his lighter productions, the " Memoirs of Lady Frail" (a false history... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1907 - 654 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 farther go; To make a third she joined the former two. EARL OF ROSCOMMON (1633?-1685) FROM AN ESSAY ON TRANSLATED VERSE What I... | |
 | Marianna Woodhull - 1907 - 398 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 farther go ; To make a third she joined the former two. Linos printed under the engraved portrait of Milton in Tonson's edition... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - 1909 - 892 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 farther go; To make a third she joined the former two. /. Dryden 316. Prologues to the University of Oxford Spoken by Mr. Hart... | |
 | John Dryden - 1909 - 1122 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 farther go; To make a third, she join'd the former two. BRITANNIA REDIVIVA A POEM ON THE PRINCE, BORN ON THE TENTH OF JUNE, 1 688... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer, Alice Ebba Andrews - 1910 - 778 σελίδες
...England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, The next in majesty, in both the last; henpW + she joined the former two. SONG FROM THE INDIAN EMPEROR. Ah fading joy! how quickly art thou past!... | |
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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. 
