 | John Dryden - 1837 - 478 pages
...England did adorn. The first, in loftiness of thought surpass'd ; The next, in majesty ; in hoth the hut. The force of nature could no further go ; To make a third, she join'd the former two. MONUMENT OF A FAIR MAIDEN LADY, WHO DtED AT RATH, AMi tS THERE iit TEHEED.* BELOW this marhle monument... | |
 | Henry Thompson - Authors, English - 1838 - 452 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...could no further go ; To make a third, she join'd the other two." BB 2 Yet, seek where'er you will, you'll never find A richer intellect — a loftier mind.... | |
 | Hannah More - Children - 1838 - 472 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...could no further go ; To make a third, she join'd the other two." Yet, seek where'er you will, you'll never find A richer intellect — a loftier mind. Who... | |
 | Reymond de Véricour, Louis Raymond de Véricour - Epic poetry - 1838 - 448 pages
...born , Greece , Italy , and England did adorn , The lirst in loftiness of thought surpast , The iiext in majesty ; in both , the last. The force of nature could no farlhêr go , To make a third , shejoined the former .two ! encore humides de la nouvelle composition... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1839 - 642 pages
...eyeballs became as coals of fire, and she did not shed a 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." single tear. That woman's tears have not... | |
 | Theology - 1855 - 630 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...go ; To make a third, she join'd the former two." What height and depth of conception ! What vigour of expression ! How sound and critical the judgment... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...distant ages bom, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd, y , ehe join'd the other two. To my Honoured Amman, Jo/i» Dryden, Esq. of Cha* terton, in tlie County... | |
 | 1895 - 844 pages
...Lincoln, Armagh, and Sllgo did adorn, The first in matchless impndence surpassed, The next in bigotry — in both the last ; The force of Nature could no further go, To beard the third, she shaved the other two. This was rather a personal attack, and was amusing only... | |
 | 1876 - 818 pages
...Dryden : — " Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn ; The lint in loftiness of thought surpast ; The next in majesty...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 - Anatomy - 1845 - 330 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...further go ; To make a third, she join'd the former two. Under a portrait of Milton — Dryden. The poetry of earth is never dead! — When all the birds are... | |
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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. 
