The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Vol II With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes
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Chapter 20 UNDER MR MILTON'S PICTURE, BEFORE HIS PARADISE LOST.[38]

Three Poets, in three distant ages born,

Greece, Italy, and 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.

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FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 38: In Tonson's folio edition.]

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