| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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!—... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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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