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LINES PRINTED UNDER THE ENGRAVED PORTRAIT OF MILTON by JOHN DRYDEN

Poet Analysis

First Line: THREE POETS, IN THREE DISTANT AGES BORN
Last Line: TO MAKE A THIRD SHE JOIN'D THE FORMER TWO.
Subject(s): MILTON, JOHN (1608-1674); NATURE; POETRY & POETS;
THREE Poets, in three distant Ages born,
@3Greece, Italy@1, and @3England@1 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 join'd the former two.



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