 | 1876 - 818 Seiten
...England did adorn ; The lint in loftiness of thought surpast ; The next in majesty ; in both the last. The force of nature could no further go, To make a third she j oin'd the other two : ' ' a rather fanciful epitaph ; after the fashion, however, of those days.... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 396 Seiten
...did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed ; The next, in majesty ; in both, the lust. The force of nature could no further go ; To make a third, »he join'd the former two. Under a portrait of Milton — Dryden. The poetry of earth is never dead!... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 Seiten
...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. Dryden. III. HOPE. THE wretch, condemned with life to part, Still, still... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 330 Seiten
...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 join'd the former two. Under a portrait of Milton — Dryden. The poetry of earth is never dead!... | |
 | 1846 - 844 Seiten
...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 further go : To make a third she joined the other two. The " Paradise Lost " therefore is a great epic, — and an epic poem is... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 Seiten
...England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd, The next in majesty ; in IxHh the ¡.MI . the deeds and triumphs of just and pious nations, doing va she join'd the other two. To my Honoured Kinmum, John Drydcn, Eeq. of Cketterton, in the County of... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 Seiten
...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 other two " 41. Every Man the Architect of his own Fortune. " But chiefly the mould... | |
 | 1848 - 596 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare - 1848 - 426 Seiten
...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 : 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 1798 Seiten
...did adorn : The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd ; The next, in majesty ; in both the last. The force of 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... | |
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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. 
