 | Thomas Moore - 1993 - 274 Seiten
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 | Jan Piggott - 1993 - 132 Seiten
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 | Thomas Bulfinch - 1993 - 390 Seiten
...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... | |
 | David Hopkins - 1994 - 275 Seiten
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 | John T. Shawcross - 1995 - 292 Seiten
...Dryden, 'Epigram' (1688), printed beneath Milton's portrait in Paradise Lost, ed. Jacob Tonson (i< Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy,...of nature 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... | |
 | Gerald M. MacLean - 1995 - 314 Seiten
...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,...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 Seiten
...than the then poet laureate, in a conventionally extravagant epigram, who first made the nomination: Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy,...of nature 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,... | |
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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. 
