 | James Boswell - 1848 - 1798 σελίδες
...Dryden's celebrated lines, " Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did ray :" arnl a part of a Latin translation of it done at Oxford ' : he did not then say by whom. He received... | |
 | Richmal Mangnall - 1848 - 498 σελίδες
...picture, which are subjoined : " Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn : The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd,...— in both the last ; The force of nature could no farther go, To make a third, she joined the former two." William Mason, a poet, and the intimate friend... | |
 | 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...nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the other two " 41. Every Man the Architect of his own Fortune. " But chiefly the mould of a... | |
 | Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare - 1848 - 426 σελίδες
...distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpast ; The next in majesty ; in both the last. The force...Nature could no further go : To make a third, she joined the former two. As these lines are on the author of Paradise Lost, we know who must be the other... | |
 | 1848 - 596 σελίδες
...thus the war-party designated themselves — and mark the future rulers of Ireland's destinies — The force of Nature could no further go — To make a third, she join'd the other two. We have said that we believe this party to have been more in earnest than the other. They... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 σελίδες
...learnt below. [0» îfiltm.] Three poets, in three distant ages bom, Greece, Italy, and England did -featherM sleep : And let some strange mysterious...display'd, Softly on my eye-lids laid. And, as I wake, other two. To my Honoured Шптпап, John Drydcn, Etq, of Chaterton, in the County of Huntingdon,... | |
 | 1893 - 688 σελίδες
...thrice happy 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 lived,... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | 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, near the banks of the Ouse, in Huntingdon.... | |
 | 1850 - 590 σελίδες
...Greece, Italy, and 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 yet... | |
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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. 
