| Sir Jonah Barrington - 1827 - 266 Seiten
...Melic, Cork, and Blarney did adorn : In solemn surliness the first surpass'd, The next in balderdash — in both the last : The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she join'd the former two ! Lord Yelverton, not expecting the lampoon to come in form of a letter, was greatly diverted; it was... | |
| Sir Jonah Barrington - 1827 - 504 Seiten
...Cork, and Blarney did adorn : In solemn surliness the first surpass'd, The next in baldcrikuh—in both the last: The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she join'd the former two ! Lord Yelverton, not expecting the lampoon to come in form of a letter, was greatly diverted; it was... | |
| General reader - 1827 - 246 Seiten
...Muse in marble might express, Is known already: Praise would make him less. Pope's Works. ON MILTON. 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 j To make... | |
| Laconics - 1829 - 358 Seiten
...the void, by some rude shock we're broke, And all our boasted fire is lost in smoke. MLXXI. Congreve. Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy,...third, she join'd the former two. Under a portrait of Milton—Dryden. MLXXH. Must not that man be abandoned even to all manner of humanity, who can deceive... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 412 Seiten
...made shift to slink In at a corn /n/f, through a chink. id. Three poets in three distant ages born ; The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, The next in majesty ; in both the last. Dryden. -Man, the tyrant of our sex, 1 hate, A lowly servant, but a lofty mate. Id. Augustus and Tiberius... | |
| 1830 - 550 Seiten
...imitated (perhaps unintentionally) by Dryden, in his celebrated encomium on Milton; beginning — " Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy,...and England did adorn ; The first in loftiness of thougbt surpass'd; The next in majesty— in both tlie last. The force of Nature could no farther go... | |
| 1830 - 542 Seiten
...should meet in the minds of the same individuals, anti-celtic prejudice, and pride of Celtic birth ! " The force of nature could no further go, To make a third she joined the former two." Yet, notwithstanding what we have said, we are far from feeling disrespect... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 Seiten
...And Music shall untune the sky. VNDER THE PORTRAIT OF JOHN MILTON. [Prefixed to " Paradise Lost."] THREE poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy,...England, did adorn, The first in loftiness of thought surThe next in majesty; in both the last, The force of nature could no further go; To make a third,... | |
| Joseph Ivimey - 1833 - 320 Seiten
...juster de scription of MILTON, considered as a poet, than in the well-known words of Dryden : — " Three Poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy,...nature could no further go : To make a third, she joined the former two." Mention has been made of the withdrawment of MILTON at the time of the plague,... | |
| Joseph Ivimey - 1833 - 430 Seiten
...and juster description of MILTON, considered as a poet, than in the well-known words of Dryden :— " Three Poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy,...thought surpassed; The next in majesty; in both the lastThe force of nature could no further go : To make a third, she joined the former two." Mention... | |
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