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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
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Choice specimens of English literature, selected and arranged by T.B. Shaw ...

Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 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. FROM 'ABSALOM AND ACHITOFHEL.' 149. CHARACTER OF SHAFTESBDRY (ACHITOPHEL)....
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Transactions, Volume 7

Ecclesiological Society - Church buildings - 1915 - 310 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. Built into a house on the site of All Hallows is a portrait bust of Milton...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton

John Milton - 1917 - 660 pages
...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...
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The Standard Book of Jewish Verse

George Alexander Kohut - Jewish poetry - 1917 - 1066 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 join'd the former two." But he said nothing of Hebrew poetry. Probably he had in mind that the...
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Voltaire's Visit to England, 1726-1729

Archibald Ballantyne - 1919 - 358 pages
...bestow'd some verses upon him, in which he puts him upon a Level with, nay above Virgil and Homer : The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she join'd the former two. ' The same Mr. Dryden, in his Preface upon his Translation of the A^neid,...
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The University of Chicago Magazine, Volumes 5-6

1919 - 776 pages
...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...
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The Complete Poetical Works of John Milton

John Milton - 1892 - 672 pages
...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...
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Literary Culture in Early New England, 1620-1730

Thomas Goddard Wright - American literature - 1920 - 334 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. then we have another evidence of acquaintance with Milton's « Ibid., i....
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McGuffey's First [-sixth] Eclectic Reader, Volume 6

William Holmes McGuffey - Readers - 1921 - 506 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. NOTE. — The two poets referred to, other than Milton, are Homer and Dante....
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HOYT'S NEW CYCLOPEDIA OF PRACTICAL QUOTATIONS

KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...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...
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