 | John Milton, James Prendeville - Bible - 1850 - 452 pages
...observation is most natural, as he was the author of the famous epigram — "Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn : The first in loftiness of thought surpassed ; The second in dignity ; in both the last. The force of nature could no farther go ; To... | |
 | Eliot Warburton - 1851 - 600 pages
...only full as just as the original, but have not the tautology of loftiness and majesty :— " Throe orators in distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn ; The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, The next in language, but in both the last: The power of nature could no farther go ; To... | |
 | Education - 1851 - 502 pages
...passage, and parse the, words printed in italics. To what three poets does it refer ? 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 mahe... | |
 | 1851 - 492 pages
...the church, a tablet with the following inscription has been placed ; — •' Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and 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... | |
 | Edward Litt L. Blanchard - Great Exhibition - 1851 - 324 pages
...holding an apple. Itis peculiarly suggestive of Dryden's graceful panegyric : — " 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... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1851 - 554 pages
...extravagant in the praise which he bestowed upon it in his well-known lines ; " 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1851 - 410 pages
...poet in a hundred generations." He then repeated Dryden's celebrated lines, " 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... | |
 | Bengal council of educ - 1852 - 348 pages
...thilling fears, Or ope the sacred source of sympathetic tears.' " Answer 9th.— " Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy and England did adorn, The first in loftiness of thought surpnst, The next in majesty, in both the last; The force of nature could no further go, To make a... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - English literature - 1852 - 458 pages
...and the ancients too." Subsequently he recorded his praise in verse. " Three poets in three different 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... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1853 - 748 pages
...Sc. 1.] Quotation wanted. — Who is the author of the following lines ? — " 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... | |
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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. 
