 | English poets - 1790 - 312 Seiten
...England did adorn. The firft, in loftinefs of thought furpafs'd ; The next, in majefty; in both the laft. The force of nature could no further go ; To make a third, fhe join'd the former two. XII. ON THE MONUMENT OF A FAIR MAIDEN LADY, WHO DIED AT BATH, AND IS THERE... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 740 Seiten
...England did adorn. The firft in loftinefs of thought furpaft ; The next in majefty ; in both the lafl. The force of Nature could no further go : To make a third, Ihe join'd the former two.' DRTDEN. EDINBURGH: PRINTED BX MVNDELL AND SON, PARLIAMENT STAIRS. * n >... | |
 | John Milton - 1796 - 452 Seiten
...England, did adorn. The firft in loftinefs of thought furpafl i The next in malefty i in both the laft. The force of nature could no further go : To make a third lhe loin'd the former two. DRYDEIT. PARTE PRIMA. LONDRA, PRESSO O. FOLIDOftl, E CO. N° 12, COCKSPUR.STREET,... | |
 | Select epigrams - 1797 - 188 Seiten
...England did adorn. The firft in loftinefs of thought furpaft, The next in majefty, in both, the laft. The force of nature could no further go ; To make a third, {he join'd the former two. EPIGRAM ON A PIGMY'S DEATH. BY BISHOP SPRAT. BESTRIDE an Ant, a Pigmy great... | |
 | Johann Gottfried Grohmann - 1798 - 590 Seiten
...did adorn. The firft in majefty of thought furpafs'd, The next in gracefulnefs : in both the laft. The force of nature could no further go; To make a third fhe joined the other two. Uftilton fam im З'Ф «639 П«Ф €nq!ant> ¿uräcf, unb mietbfs te in... | |
 | Old Humphrey - 1799 - 372 Seiten
...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 no further go, To make a third, she join'd the other two." The fog seems to increase, and every distant object is hidden, or appears very indistinct.... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1802 - 152 Seiten
...contemporaries, and yet has since been placed at the head of English classic literature by Dryden : — " Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy and England did adorn, Homer in loftiness of thought surpass'd, Virgil in majesty, in both the last." " And ever against eating... | |
 | 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,...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... | |
 | Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - 1806 - 360 Seiten
...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...could no further go : To make a third, she join'd the other two.* DRÏDEN > Misccll.-.nies. * Si une nation pouvait se vanter d'avoir * Trois poetes, nés... | |
 | 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'dr The next in ma jesty , in both the last. The force of nature could no further go : To make... | |
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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. 
