XII. LINES PRINTED UNDER THE PORTRAIT OF MILTON.
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XII. LINES PRINTED UNDER THE PORTRAIT OF MILTON.
Dryden.
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 farther go; To make a third she join'd the former two.