| John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 504 頁
...mhile at Rome : Grtecia Mreonidem, jactet sibi Roma Maronem, Anglia Miltonum jactat utrique parem. THREE poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy,...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... | |
| John Milton - 1823 - 462 頁
...FIRMINO UIDOT, IMPRESSOR UO REI, RUA JACOB, N' l/;. i8a3. Three poets, in three distant ages boro, 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 further go : To make... | |
| Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1826 - 250 頁
...priores Qua; potuere duos, tertius unus habet : from the famous lines written under Milton's picture : 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 a... | |
| General reader - 1827 - 246 頁
...Muse in marble might express, Is known already: Praise would make him less. Pope's Works. ON 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 further go j To make... | |
| John Timbs - 1829 - 354 頁
...the void, by some rude shock we're broke, And all our boasted fire is lost in smoke. Congreee. MLXXI. Three 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... | |
| Laconics - 1829 - 358 頁
...the void, by some rude shock we're broke, And all our boasted fire is lost in smoke. MLXXI. Congreve. Three 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... | |
| 1830 - 550 頁
...imitated (perhaps unintentionally) by Dryden, in his celebrated encomium on Milton; beginning — " Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy,...and England did adorn ; The first in loftiness of thougbt surpass'd; The next in majesty— in both tlie last. The force of Nature could no farther go... | |
| Joseph Ivimey - 1833 - 430 頁
...and juster description of MILTON, considered as a poet, than in the well-known words of Dryden :— " Three 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 lastThe force of nature could no further go : To make a... | |
| Mary Martha Rodwell - 1834 - 424 頁
...employed one of his daughters as his amanuensis : his character is thus portrayed by Dryden : — " Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy,...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 頁
...subject there is as much of truth as there is of enthusiasm, in the following epigram of Dryden. ' Three 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 farther go ;... | |
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