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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. "
A New and General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and ... - Page 381
1762
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Elocution, Or, Mental and Vocal Philosophy: Involving the Principles of ...

C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 396 pages
...did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed ; The next, in majesty ; in both, the lust. The force of nature could no further go ; To make a third, »he join'd the former two. Under a portrait of Milton — Dryden. The poetry of earth is never dead!...
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The Methodist new connexion magazine and evangelical repository, Volume 79

1876 - 818 pages
...England did adorn ; The lint in loftiness of thought surpast ; The next in majesty ; in both the last. The force of nature could no further go, To make a third she j oin'd the other two : ' ' a rather fanciful epitaph ; after the fashion, however, of those days....
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Elocution; Or, Mental and Vocal Philosophy: Involving the Principles of ...

C. P. Bronson - Anatomy - 1845 - 330 pages
...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. Under a portrait of Milton — Dryden. The poetry of earth is never dead!...
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The Ecclesiastic [afterw.] The Theologian and ecclesiastic ..., Volumes 1-2

1846 - 844 pages
...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 joined the other two. The " Paradise Lost " therefore is a great epic, — and an epic poem is...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: First period, from the earliest times to 1400

Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd, The next in majesty ; in IxHh the ¡.MI . the deeds and triumphs of just and pious nations, doing va she join'd the other two. To my Honoured Kinmum, John Drydcn, Eeq. of Cketterton, in the County of...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Their Tour to the Hebrides

James Boswell - Authors, English - 1848 - 1798 pages
...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 :" arnl a part of a Latin translation of it done at Oxford ' : he did not...
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Guesses at Truth: Second Series

Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1848 - 426 pages
...England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpast ; 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. As these lines are on the author of Paradise Lost, we know who must be the...
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North American First Class Reader: The Sixth Book of Tower's Series for ...

David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...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. " But chiefly the mould...
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The North British review

1848 - 596 pages
...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...
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Notes and Queries

Electronic journals - 1893 - 688 pages
...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...
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