 | Richard Gameson, Nigel J. Morgan, D. F. McKenzie, Lotte Hellinga, John Barnard, Rodney M. Thomson, Joseph Burney Trapp, Maureen Bell, David McKitterick - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1998 - 964 pages
...been given the status of a classic. Dryden commended Milton: 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 cou'dno farther goe: To make... | |
 | Suvir Kaul - History - 2000 - 358 pages
...echo this sentiment and embody it in the figure of Milton: 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 cou'd no farther goe: To make... | |
 | Marcie Frank - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 194 pages
...frontispiece for the fourth edition of Paradise Lost (1688): 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 cou'd no farther goe: To make... | |
 | Marcie Frank - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 194 pages
...frontispiece for the fourth edition of Paradise Lost (1688): 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 cou'd no farther goe: To make... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 pages
...beneath his portrait in the 1688 edition of Paradise Lost: Three poets, in three distant ages bom, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in...further go; To make a third, she joined the former two. There are hesitations in this celebration of Milton's genius: to confirm his classic status, Dryden... | |
 | John T. Lynch - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 244 pages
...ancient epic poets, as Dryden's epigram of 1688 makes clear: 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 cou'd no farther goe; To make... | |
 | Earl Roy Miner, William Moeck, Steven Edward Jablonski - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 520 pages
...some lines on Milton that were printed beneath a portrait. Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England, did adorn. The first in...further go; To make a third, she joined the former two. The lines show Dryden's knowledge of Milton's tastes and of his 1645 Poems, republished in 1673. Dryden... | |
 | Francis Blessington - Epic poetry, English - 2004 - 161 pages
...met Milton and had turned Paradise Lost into a closet opera: 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 goe: To make... | |
 | Marcus Walsh - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 244 pages
...and bearing in its frontispiece Dryden's famous epigram: 2 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 cou'd no farther goe: To make... | |
 | Hesther Lynch Piozzi - 2006 - 302 pages
...habet:" from the famous lines written under Milton's picture: "Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn; The first in...further go, To make a third she joined the former two." One evening in the oratorio season of the year 1771 Mr. Johnson went with me to Covent Garden Theatre,... | |
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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. 
