 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...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... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1848 - 1798 pages
...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... | |
 | Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1848 - 426 pages
...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... | |
 | 1848 - 596 pages
...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... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1893 - 688 pages
...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... | |
 | John Lettsom Elliot - Free trade - 1850 - 110 pages
...make this fusion of Peel and Graham, as Dryden says of Milton, with regard to Homer and Virgil ? " The force of Nature could no further go : To make a third, she joined the other two." PROTECTION. Well, I confess, that never occurred to me before. But, at all... | |
 | 318 pages
...having had three wives. me nrst in loftiness of thought surpas: 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. — DRTDEN. OLIVER CROMWELL was born 1.599, near the banks of the Ouse,... | |
 | Churches of Christ - 1850 - 590 pages
...England, did adorn : The first in loftiness of thought surpast, The next in beauty, both the last : The force of Nature could no further go, To make a third she joined the other two :" so we may say, with more than equal truth, the " force of nature" has not... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1851 - 790 pages
...England did adorn. The lir«t in loftjues* of thought curpass'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. liant subject. It is not when I will, nor upon what I will, but as a thought... | |
 | James Boswell - 1851 - 410 pages
...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." and a part of a Latin translation of it done at Oxford,* he did not then... | |
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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. 
