 | 1847 - 334 páginas
...pride, goes muttering on his way the lines now cut into the corner stone : — " Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England, did...last: The force of Nature could no further go, To form the last she joined the other two.' That church, whose brick tower you may see surmounted by a... | |
 | Sir Francis Hill - 1974 - 368 páginas
...Did Lincoln, Sligo and Armagh adorn; The first in gravity of face surpassed, The next in bigotry - in both the last. The force of nature could no further go; To beard the one she shaved the other two. 2 Fraser's Magazine, xxxv1 (July-December 1847), 462-5. 3 Towards... | |
 | James Chapman - 378 páginas
...hundred ways with two. p' pp P , P' r P P'PP* 4. Three poets ui three distant ages born, P' PPPPPPPP P' Greece, Italy, and England did adorn : The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd, , PPP P. PPP P', P PThe next in majesty, in both the last. „ P P' PPPP , , P /' , P P'... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1881 - 468 páginas
...regard to Milton, while the great Epic Poet was still in " dim eclipse :" — " Three Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy and England did adorn....majesty ; in both the last. The force of nature could no farther go — To make a third, she joined the former two." The lines to Congreve are also generous,... | |
 | Joseph M. Levine - 1991 - 452 páginas
...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...surpassed; The next in majesty; in both the last. To make a third, she joined the former two.17 Of course, the comparison had inspired Milton himself,... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 páginas
...LiTB; OBEV; QFR; SeCV-2 Lines Printed under the Engraved Portrait of Milton 10 Three poets, in three e farther go; To make a third she joined the former two. (1. 1—6) ACP; HelP, InPK; OAEL-1; SeCV-2;... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - 1993 - 390 páginas
...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... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - 1995 - 292 páginas
...(1688), printed beneath Milton's portrait in Paradise Lost, ed. Jacob Tonson (i< Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England, did...could no further go; To make a third, she joined the former two. 38. Comment on Milton 1692 Question and Answer from Athenian Mercury (ie Athenian Gazette:... | |
 | Gerald M. MacLean - 1995 - 314 páginas
...even literary histories of a slightly Whiggish cast,2 have so long determined 1 "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 cou'd no farther goe: / To... | |
 | William Riley Parker - 1996 - 708 páginas
...laureate, in a conventionally extravagant epigram, who first made the nomination: Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did...could no further go; To make a third, she joined the former two. When Dryden penned these lines for the 1688 folio edition of Paradise Lost, a generous... | |
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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. 
