 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England, did adorn, The first in loftiness of thought surThe next in majesty; in both the last, The force of nature could no further go; To make a third, she joined the former two. [From lieligio Laici.] THE LIGHT OF REASON. Dm as the borrowed beams of moon... | |
 | Joseph Ivimey - Poets, English - 1833 - 320 pages
...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...nature could no further go : To make a third, she joined the former two." Mention has been made of the withdrawment of MILTON at the time of the plague,... | |
 | Joseph Ivimey - Poets, English - 1833 - 430 pages
...England, did adorn: The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty; in both the lastThe force of nature could no further go : To make a third, she joined the former two." Mention has been made of the withdrawment of MILTON at the time of the plague,... | |
 | Mary Martha Rodwell - 1834 - 424 pages
...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...nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two." BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. Boundaries. — Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 350 pages
...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 a third, she join'd the former two. ADDISON.f BUT Milton next, with high and haughty... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1835 - 414 pages
...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 a third, she joined the former two.' 'this connexion is, that essayists can be... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 350 pages
...and but two rivals; yet of whose rivalry Dryden, in that first of epigrams, happily observes — " The force of Nature could no further go — To make a third shejoin'd the former two." No apology therefore is needed for now proposing a new and splendidly-embellished... | |
 | Joe Miller - English wit and humor - 1836 - 266 pages
...can no longer scold — she cries. On Milton. BY MR. DRVDEN. Three poets, in three distant ages horn, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn ; The first in...majesty ; in both the last. The force of nature could no farther go — To make a third she join'd the former two. Written in the leaves of a Fan. BY DR. ATTERBURY,... | |
 | William Cowper - Poets, English - 1836 - 388 pages
...distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and Kngland 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, I i• ! Jn.• To make a third she join'd the other two. • , i ... „ .. Page 252.... | |
 | William Cowper - Poets, English - 1836 - 384 pages
...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 a third she join'd the other two. Page 252. Vincent Bourne. " I think him a better... | |
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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. 
