 | George Mogridge - 1799 - 368 Seiten
...Milton moulders. Dryden's lines on the three great poets, Homer, Virgil, and Milton, are well known. " Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn ; The first in majesty of thought surpass'd, The next in gracefulness;—in both, the last. The... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1802 - 152 Seiten
...contemporaries, and yet has since been placed at the head of English classic literature by Dryden : — " Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy and England did adorn, Homer in loftiness of thought surpass'd, Virgil in majesty, in both the last." " And ever against... | |
 | 1804 - 512 Seiten
...TP TO; . H ^u<ri5 c! OTforsf e; a>w nfyvacura, /AEW/VOT, Tov Tf iron (ts^arrEn, TS<TW The Original. 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... | |
 | 1806 - 224 Seiten
...parcm. Of which 3Vfr. Dryden's celebrated epigram, constantly prefixed to Para» John Milton. disc Lost, is little more than a translation : Three poets...distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn : The first in majesty of thought surpass'd, The next in gracefulness, in both the last. The... | |
 | Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - 1806 - 360 Seiten
...l'expression. Dryden me paraît avoir écouté l'orgueil national plus que la justice, quand il a dit : 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... | |
 | Select collection - 1806 - 262 Seiten
...rose satisfy'd, Thank' d heav'n that he hadliv'd, and that he dy'd. * This plain floor ON JOHN MILTOX. Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn : Thejint in loftiness of thought surpast ; The next in majesty ; in both the last. The force... | |
 | 1806 - 274 Seiten
...captain, I'd put on gay looks, " If the judge and the jury to try me were cooks." CCXLVIII. MILTON. Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn ; The first in loftiness of thought surpast ; The next in majesty — in both the last. The force... | |
 | Panorama - 1809 - 368 Seiten
...I who bless'd like Paris, fear'd his fall, Swore each a Venus was,— and pleas'd them all. MILTON. THREE poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn ; The 6rst in loftiness of thonght surpast; The next in majesty — in both the last. The force... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 Seiten
...throne, Trace the dark paths of Providence Divine, " And justify the ways of God to man." FC 1610. 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... | |
 | 1812 - 156 Seiten
...like a true modern spouse, — For she fled from his arms — to distinguish his brtnvs. CCI. MILTON. Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn ; The first in loftiness of thought surpast ; The next in majesty — in both the last. The force... | |
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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. 
