 | 1846 - 844 页
...poem because it was not the first, a description which reminds us of Dryden's clever epigram : — Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy,...of nature could no further go : To make a third she joined the other two. The " Paradise Lost " therefore is a great epic, — and an epic poem is the... | |
 | Joseph M. Levine - 1991 - 452 页
...poems, as in Dryden's famous epigram that adorned the 1688 edition: Three Poets, in three different ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first, in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty; in both the last. To make a third, she joined the former two.17 Of... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 页
...way to live, by dying. LiTB; OBEV; QFR; SeCV-2 Lines Printed under the Engraved Portrait of Milton 10 . surpassed, The next in majesty, in both the last: The force of Nature could no farther go; To make... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - 1993 - 390 页
...much truth as it is usual to find in such pointed criticism: On Milton Three poets in three different ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn The first in loftiness of soul surpassed, The next in majesty, in both the last. The force of nature could no further go; To... | |
 | Gerald M. MacLean - 1995 - 314 页
...strong writing, perhaps even literary histories of a slightly Whiggish cast,2 have so long determined 1 "Three Poets, in three distant Ages born, / Greece,...in Majesty; in both the Last. / The force of Nature cou'd no farther goe: / To make a Third she joynd the former two"; Dryden, Poems, 2 : 540. Hugh Macdonald,... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - 1995 - 292 页
...Dryden, 'Epigram' (1688), printed beneath Milton's portrait in Paradise Lost, ed. Jacob Tonson (i< 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... | |
 | William Riley Parker - 1996 - 708 页
...than the then poet laureate, in a conventionally extravagant epigram, who first made the nomination: 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... | |
 | Alexandre Beljame - 1998 - 528 页
...Pvems, the second Sih'f, and the third Examen Poeticum. See my Bibliography, sv Dryden. " Three Pvets, in three distant Ages born, Greece, Italy and England did adorn. The First in lof1iness of thought Surpass Yl, The Next in Majesty ; in both the Last. The force of Nature couYl... | |
 | Richard Gameson, Nigel J. Morgan, D. F. McKenzie, Lotte Hellinga, John Barnard, Rodney M. Thomson, Joseph Burney Trapp, Maureen Bell, David McKitterick - 1998 - 964 页
...Similes, and Speeches.' Milton's epic had been given the status of a classic. Dryden commended Milton: Three Poets, in three distant Ages born; Greece, Italy,...in Majesty; in both the Last. The force of Nature cou'dno farther goe: To make a Third shejoynd the former two.62 While the poetry flourished, with subsequent... | |
 | Suvir Kaul - 2000 - 358 页
...Dryden's brief "Lines on Milton" (1688) echo this sentiment and embody it in the figure of Milton: Three Poets, in three distant Ages born, Greece, Italy,...in Majesty; in both the Last. The force of Nature cou'd no farther goe: To make a Tliird she joynd the former two. 72. For an account of the portrayal... | |
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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. 
