 | C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 390 pages
...distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftineaa of thought surpassed ; The next, in majesty ; in both, the last. The force...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!—... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...distant ages horn, 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. Dryden. III. HOPE. THE wretch, condemned with life to part, Still, still on... | |
 | Charles P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 438 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 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
...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 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 - 396 pages
...did adorn. The first in loftiness of 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 a portrait of Milton — Dryden. The poetry of earth is never dead!... | |
 | 1846 - 844 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 further go : To make a third she joined the other two. The " Paradise Lost " therefore is a great epic, — and an epic poem is the... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and F.ngland did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, ell, like most of the other productions of that age,...long-enduring neglect Their merits having been again other two. To my Honoured Kinsman, John Dryden, Esq. of Chesterton, in the County of Huntingdon. How... | |
 | 1847 - 334 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 further go, To form the last she joined the other two.' That church, whose brick tower you may see surmounted by a... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd, The next in majesty ; in IxHh the ¡.MI . the deeds and triumphs of just and pious nations, doing valiantly through other two. To my Honoured Kinmum, John Drydcn, Eeq. of Cketterton, in the County of Huntingdon. How... | |
 | Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1848 - 426 pages
...thoughts into so small a space, than are crowded into its last four lines. Does the reader remember it ? Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy,...Nature could no further go : To make a third, she joined the former two. As these lines are on the author of Paradise Lost, we know who must be the other... | |
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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. 
