 | 1830 - 542 страници
...should meet in the minds of the same individuals, anti-celtic prejudice, and pride of Celtic birth ! " The force of nature could no further go, To make a third she joined the former two." Yet, notwithstanding what we have said, we are far from feeling disrespect for the present race of... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 страници
...THE PORTRAIT OF JOHN MILTON. [Prefixed to " Paradise Lost."] THREE poets in three 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,... | |
 | Joseph Ivimey - 1833 - 320 страници
...considered as a poet, than in the well-known words of Dryden : — " Three Poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England, did adorn : The first...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, in 1666, to the country.... | |
 | Joseph Ivimey - 1833 - 430 страници
...considered as a poet, than in the well-known words of Dryden :— " 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 lastThe force of nature could no further go : To make a third, she joined the former two." Mention... | |
 | Mary Martha Rodwell - 1834 - 424 страници
...amanuensis : his character is thus portrayed by Dryden : — " 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... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1835 - 414 страници
...there is of enthusiasm, in the following epigram of Dryden. ' Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England, did adorn. The first in...— 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 350 страници
...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 350 страници
...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... | |
 | 1836 - 558 страници
...BY DRYDEN. THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England, did adorn: Tin ih>I 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. FROM AN ACCOUNT OP THE GREATEST ENGLISH POETS.... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 388 страници
...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.... | |
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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. 
