| 1762 - 668 ページ
...celebrated epigram of fix lines, conftantly prefixed to Paradife Left, is little more than * iranflation: " Three poets in three diftant ages born, " Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. " The firft in majefty of thought furpafle.d, " The next in gracefulnefs : in both the laft. " The force of nature... | |
| John Dryden - 1767 - 386 ページ
...widow confecrates this tomb, O 3 Under ] C Under Mr. M i LT o N'S Pi&ure, before his PARADISE LOST. THREE Poets, in three diftant ages born, Greece, Italy,...in majefty ; in both the laft. The force of nature cou'd no further go ; To make a third, me join'd the former two. On the MONUMENT of a FAIR MAIDEN LADY',... | |
| John Dryden - 1767 - 388 ページ
...confecrates this tomb. O 3 Under } inrue. raws; > J Under Mr. M i LT o N'S Pidure, before his PARADISE LOST. THREE Poets, in three diftant ages born, Greece, Italy,...in majefty ; in both the laft. The force of nature cou/d no further go ; To make a third, fhe join'd the former two. On the MONUMENT of a FAIR MAIDEN... | |
| John Milton - 1767 - 448 ページ
...encomiums palled upon Miltonls. poems by men of diftinguifhed character among the critics. . «i Thr.efr 1 Three poets in three diftant ages born, Greece, Italy,...England did adorn. The firft in loftinefs of thought furpaft ; The next, in Majefty ; in both, the laft. The force of Nature could no farther go t To make... | |
| John Dryden - 1773 - 268 ページ
...Paradife Loft. THREE focti, in three diftant agei born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. ThefrJ) in loftinefs of thought furpafs'd; The next in majefty ; in both the lajt. The foree of Nature could no further go ; To make a iKrd (he join'd the other two. SONG S. A... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 614 ページ
...widow confecrates this tomb. XI. Under Mr. M : LT o N'S Pifture,- before his Paradife Loft. *T~* HREE Poets, in three diftant ages born, -*• Greece, Italy,...force of nature could no further go ; To make a third, me join'd the former two. XII. On the MONUMENT of a fair Maiden Lady, wh» died at Bath, and is there... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 664 ページ
...pious widow confecrates this tomb. XI. Under Mr. M a t T o N'S Pidlure, before his Paradife Loft. -*. Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The firft, in...further go ; To make a third, fhe join'd the former two. >Tp HREE Poets, in three diftant ages born, XII. On the MONUMENT of a fair Maiden Lady, who died at... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 328 ページ
...widow confecrates this tomb. XI. Under Mr. M it T o N'S Pifture, before hi* Paradife Loft. *~¥~* HREE Poets, in three diftant ages born, -*• Greece, Italy,...firft, in loftinefs of thought furpafs'd ; The next, in majerty ; in both the laft. The force of nature could no further go ; To make a third, (tie join'd... | |
| Arthur Murphy - 1786 - 482 ページ
...did adorn : Henley in cure of fouls difplay'd his fkill, Rock fhone in phyfic, and in both John Hill* The force of Nature could no further go, To make a third fhe join'd the former two. 7- THE GRAY's-INN JOURNAL. 57 NUMBER VII. Saturday, Dec. 2, 1752. Alea quando. Has animos ? • Juv.... | |
| Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1786 - 314 ページ
...friores ghtet potuere duos, Urtius unus babet : from the famous lines written under v Milton's picture : Three poets in three diftant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn : The firfl in loftinefs of thought furpaft, The next in majefty ; in both the laft. The force of Nature... | |
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