 | William Richard Harris (writer of verse.) - 1847 - 80 頁
...on?"—"No!"—Churton's Literary Rtgigter. Napoleon : an Epic Poem. By William Richard Harris. Longman & Co. " Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn." So sung a rhymer in the last century. Had he lived to our time, he would have added— " But lo ! a... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 1798 頁
...hundred can expect a poet in a hundred generations." He then repeated Dryden's celebrated lines, " i QN< UƉ ^2Ţ ." Yb a6 v( g ޒaIun 3 ^ N| r... J;Tj I $z `l-3 ^ T w7th Rp 8 Nr surpass'd ; The next, in majesty ; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make... | |
 | Richmal Mangnall - 1848 - 498 頁
...best portrayed in Dryden's celebrated stanzas, written under Milton's picture, which are subjoined : " 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 farther go, To... | |
 | Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare - 1848 - 426 頁
...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,...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... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 頁
...we cannot do better than to conclude what we would say with the following stanza : — ON MILTON. " 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... | |
 | 1894 - 668 頁
...distant Agei bora, Qreece, Italy, and England, did adorn. The First in Loftiness of Thought «urpaset, 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. JOHK T. PAGE. A SHOWSB OF FROGS (8 th S. vi.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 頁
...The way which thou so well hast learnt below. [0» îfiltm.] Three poets, in three distant ages bom, t as they keep, Entice the dewy-featherM sleep : And let some strange m surpass'd, The next in majesty ; in both the last. The force of nature could no further go ; To make... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1863 - 1194 頁
...lines, assigned him the superiority over all ancient and modem bards. " Three poets," says he — - in three distant ages born Greece, Italy, and England did adorn ; The firit in loftiness of thought lurpaised ; The next in majesty ; in both the lafit. The force of nature... | |
 | 1849 - 588 頁
...Dryden — so far as respects genius and literary taste — Three poets, in three different ages torn, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, The next in beauty, in both the last ; The force of nature could no farther go, To make... | |
 | John Milton, James Prendeville - 1850 - 452 頁
...him. made the foregoing observation is most natural, as he was the author of the famous epigram — "Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece,...England did adorn : The first in loftiness of thought surpassed ; The second in dignity ; in both the last. The force of nature could no farther go ; To... | |
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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. 
