 | Henry William Dulcken - 1860 - 230 pages
...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... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - Literature - 1860 - 538 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, sho joined the former twe. t The following madrigal was addressed to a Laneastrian lady, and accompanied... | |
 | John Milton - 1860 - 134 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 former two." Poetical commendations of Paradise Lost were also published by Dr. Samuel... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1860 - 960 pages
...did adorn : The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd ; The next, in majesty ; in both the last. H she join'd the former two :" He received a card from Sir Alexander Gordon, who had been his acquaintance... | |
 | Alexander Campbell - 1863 - 654 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 join'd the former two." So we may say, with more than equal truth, the " force of nature" has not... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 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 join'd the other two. VENI CREATOR SPIRITUS, 1 Paraphrased from the Latin Hymn. Creator Spirit,... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 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. DRYDEN. — Lines under Milton's Picture. Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp... | |
 | English poetry - 1863 - 326 pages
...England did adorn. The first in loftiness of soul 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. THE THREE GREAT EPIC POETS. AGES elapsed ere Homer's lamp appeared, And ages... | |
 | John Stoughton - London (England) - 1864 - 302 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 other two. JOHN MILTON was born in Bread-street on Friday, the 9th day of December,... | |
 | James Roscoe Mongan - 1864 - 300 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," — Dryden. (4.) "The quality of mercy is not strain'd ; It droppeth, as... | |
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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. 
