 | John Milton - 1855 - عدد الصفحات: 202
...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." DRYDs.X. ARGUMENT. This first book proposes first (in brief) the whole subject,... | |
 | 1855 - عدد الصفحات: 662
...in loftiness of thonght surpassed, The next in majesty, in both the last : The force of nature conld no further go, To make a third, she join'd the former two." We cannot stop to particularize the works of the various gifted writers of the Annian age, but in mentioning... | |
 | Thomas Goddard Wright - 1920 - عدد الصفحات: 334
...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. then we have another evidence of acquaintance with Milton's « Ibid., i. 199.... | |
 | John Milton - 1892 - عدد الصفحات: 672
...England did adorn. The first in loftiness of mind 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." Even before these lines were written the habit of comparing Milton with Homer... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1921 - عدد الصفحات: 506
...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. NOTE. — The two poets referred to, other than Milton, are Homer and Dante.... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - عدد الصفحات: 1422
...England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd; The next, in majesty; in both, the last. A mere madness, to live like a wretch, and die rich. BUBTON — Anatomy of Melanchol DRYDEN — Under Mr. Milton's Picture. Homer, Virgil, Milton. (See also COWPEB, SALVAGGI) 8 Poets should... | |
 | Carolyn Wells - 1923 - عدد الصفحات: 804
...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 join'd the former two. The original of these fine lines was probably a Latin distich written by Selvaggi at Rome, which has... | |
 | 1908 - عدد الصفحات: 600
...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 former two." Again, in "The Soul of Books," Dryden writes that in opening Milton's pages... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig, Asa Don Dickinson - 1922 - عدد الصفحات: 1920
...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 twoir^B. , . Jokn ON A CERTAIN LADY AT I KNOW a thing that 's most uncommon; (Envy,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1923 - عدد الصفحات: 856
...Jonson's Works) that all may not go quite well with Shakespeare in the other world. The force of foppery could no further go — To make a third, she join'd the former two. 230. See an epitaph on Sir Nathaniel Wraxall in the Edinburgh Review. 254. This [The ' Jenkies '] is... | |
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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. 
