 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 էջ
...harbinger of heaven, the way to show, The way which thou so well hast learnt below. — [On Milton.] ge. He gave UH this eternal spring IxHh the ¡.MI . The force of nature could no further go ; To make a third, she join'd the other two.... | |
 | Joseph M. Levine - 1991 - 452 էջ
...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 first, in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty; in both the last. To make a third, she joined the former two.17 Of... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 էջ
...way to live, by dying. LiTB; OBEV; QFR; SeCV-2 Lines Printed under the Engraved Portrait of Milton 10 . surpassed, The next in majesty, in both the last: The force of Nature could no farther go; To make... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - 1993 - 390 էջ
...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... | |
 | Gerald M. MacLean - 1995 - 314 էջ
...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,...in Majesty; in both the Last. / The force of Nature cou'd no farther goe: / To make a Third she joynd the former two"; Dryden, Poems, 2 : 540. Hugh Macdonald,... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - 1995 - 292 էջ
...Dryden, 'Epigram' (1688), printed beneath Milton's portrait in Paradise Lost, ed. Jacob Tonson (i< Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy,...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... | |
 | William Riley Parker - 1996 - 708 էջ
...than the then poet laureate, in a conventionally extravagant epigram, who first made the nomination: Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy,...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... | |
 | Alexandre Beljame - 1998 - 528 էջ
...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 էջ
...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,...in Majesty; in both the Last. The force of Nature cou'dno farther goe: To make a Third shejoynd the former two.62 While the poetry flourished, with subsequent... | |
 | Suvir Kaul - 2000 - 358 էջ
...Dryden's brief "Lines on Milton" (1688) echo this sentiment and embody it in the figure of Milton: Three Poets, in three distant Ages born, Greece, Italy,...in Majesty; in both the Last. The force of Nature cou'd no farther goe: To make a Tliird she joynd the former two. 72. For an account of the portrayal... | |
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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. 
