 | 1847 - 334 trang
...if he, with English pride, goes muttering on his way the lines now cut into the corner stone : — " Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy,...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... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1881 - 468 trang
...wrote the following in regard to Milton, while the great Epic Poet was still in " dim eclipse :" — " Three Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy...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 trang
...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 trang
...way to live, by dying. LiTB; OBEV; QFR; SeCV-2 Lines Printed under the Engraved Portrait of Milton 10 . 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 trang
...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 trang
...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 trang
...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 trang
...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,... | |
 | Alexandre Beljame - 1998 - 528 trang
...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 trang
...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,...England did adorn. The First in loftiness of thought Surpass'd; The Next in Majesty; in both the Last. The force of Nature cou'dno farther goe: 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. 
