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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. "
The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected ... - Page 160
by John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808
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Elocution: Or, Mental and Vocal Philosophy

Charles P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 438 pages
...terrors, or mitígale the agonies oftlie dying? VARIETIES. Three poels, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in...last. The force of nature could no further go ; To moke a ilnnl, *ln> join'd the former two. Under a portrait of Milton — Drydtn. The poetry of earth...
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The Methodist new connexion magazine and evangelical repository, Volume 54

1851 - 650 pages
...the Muses with equal success in other departments of poesy. Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in...in majesty ; in both the last. The force of Nature conld no further go : To make a third she joined the other two. t We have many great poets, but only...
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Elocution, Or, Mental and Vocal Philosophy: Involving the Principles of ...

C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 390 pages
...Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftineaa of thought surpassed ; The next, in majesty ; in both,...nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joln'd the former two. Under a portrait of Milton — Drydcn, The poetry of earth is never dead!—...
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The Methodist new connexion magazine and evangelical repository, Volume 79

1876 - 818 pages
...distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and 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 - Elocution - 1845 - 396 pages
...terrors, or mitigate the agonies of the dying? VAB1ETIES. Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in...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...
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Elocution, Or, Mental and Vocal Philosophy: Involving the Principles of ...

C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 334 pages
...terrors, or mitigate the agonies of the dying * VARIETIES. Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in...thought surpassed ; The next, in majesty ; in both, ihe last. . The force of nature could no further go ; To moke a third, she join'd the former two. Under...
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The Ecclesiastic [afterw.] The Theologian and ecclesiastic ..., Volumes 1-2

1846 - 844 pages
...description which reminds us of Dryden's clever epigram : — 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 further go : To make...
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Summer excursions in ... Kent, along the banks of the rivers Thames and Medway

1847 - 334 pages
...on his way the lines now cut into the corner stone : — " Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England, did adorn ; The first...last: The force of Nature could no further go, To form the last she joined the other two.' That church, whose brick tower you may see surmounted by a...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...hast learnt below. [On Milton.] Tin iv poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and F.ngland join'd the other two. To my Honoured Kinsman, John Dryden, Esq. of Chesterton, in the County of Huntingdon....
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: First period, from the earliest times to 1400

Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...way which thou so well hast learnt below. — [On Milton.] Three poets, in three distant ages born, I ぀ surpass'd, The next in majesty ; in IxHh the ¡.MI . The force of nature could no further go ; To make...
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