 | 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... | |
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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. 
