 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.  Moffatt's history readers - Página 209por Moffatt and Paige - 1883Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 páginas
...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...further go ; To make a third, she joined the other two " 41. Every Man the Architect of his own Fortune. " But chiefly the mould of a man's fortune is his... | |
 | Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare - 1848 - 426 páginas
...distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpast ; The next in majesty ; in both the last. The force...could no further go : To make a third, she joined the former two. As these lines are on the author of Paradise Lost, we know who must be the other poets... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 1798 páginas
...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...Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she join'd the former two :" arnl a part of a Latin translation of it done at Oxford ' : he did not then... | |
 | Richmal Mangnall - 1848 - 498 páginas
...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 nature could no farther go, To make a third, she joined the former two." William Mason, a poet, and the intimate friend... | |
 | 1848 - 596 páginas
...thus the war-party designated themselves — and mark the future rulers of Ireland's destinies — The force of Nature could no further go — To make a third, she join'd the other two. We have said that we believe this party to have been more in earnest than the... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 páginas
...distant ages bom, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd, eam Wave at his wings in airy stream Of lively portraiture display'd, Softly on my eye-lids laid. And, join'd the other two. To my Honoured Шптпап, John Drydcn, Etq, of Chaterton, in the County of... | |
 | 1893 - 688 páginas
...thrice happy England did adorn. The first in grace and loveliness surpassed ; In wit the second, and in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two. Had Troy still been, more worlds bad strewn her plain, Had Charles still lived, he ne'er... | |
 | 1894 - 668 páginas
...distant Agei bora, Qreece, Italy, and England, did adorn. The First in Loftiness of Thought «urpaset, The next in Majesty ;—in both, the Last :— The force of Nature could no farther go To make a Third,—She joined the former two. JOHK T. PAGE. A SHOWSB OF FROGS (8 th S. vi.... | |
 | 318 páginas
...buried in St. Giles's, Cripplegate, having had three wives. me nrst in loftiness of thought surpas: The next in majesty in both the last : The force of...could no further go, To make a third, she joined the former two. — DRTDEN. OLIVER CROMWELL was born 1.599, near the banks of the Ouse, in Huntingdon.... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - 1913 - 972 páginas
...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...further go; To make a third she joined the other two." From Cowper's "Table Talk": "Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appeared, And ages ere the Mantuan swan... | |
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