 in the following lines, written by Dryden under his picture. 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,...  The British Plutarch [by T. Mortimer]. - Seite 377von Thomas Mortimer - 1808Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 558 Seiten
...hundred can expect a poet in a hundred generations." He then repeated Dry den's celebrated lines, " Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy,...of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join'd the former two : " and a part of a Latin translation of it done at Oxford: l he did not then... | |
 | 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 force of nature could... | |
 | Old Humphrey - 1799 - 372 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 force of Nature could... | |
 | James Hardie - 1802 - 486 Seiten
...epigram of six lines, constantly prefixed to Paradise Lost, is little more than a translation. ^ , " Three poets in three distant ages born, > - Greece, Italy and England did adorn, 1'be first in majesty of thought surpass'd. The next in gracefulness : in both the last t The force... | |
 | 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,...of nature could no further go, To make a third she join'd the former two. L 3 His thoughts were next turned to a poem, a considerable part of which he... | |
 | James Hardie - 1805 - 496 Seiten
...celebrated epigram of six lines, constantly prefixed to Paradise Lost, is little more than a translation. " Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy and England did attorn, 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,...England did adorn : The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd r The next in majesty, in both the last. The force of nature could no further go : To make... | |
 | 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,...England did adorn ; The first in loftiness of thought surpast; The next in majesty—in both the last. The force of Nature could no farther go ; To make... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 506 Seiten
...p. 203. Grqecia Moeonidera, jactet sibi Roma Marpnem, Anglia Miltonum jactat utrique parent. i HHEE poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy,...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... | |
 | Panorama - 1809 - 368 Seiten
...bless'd like Paris, fear'd his fall, Swore each a Venus was,—and pleas'd them all. MILTON. TlIREE 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 of Nature could no farther go j To make... | |
| |
