William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910.
Lines Printed under the Engraved Portrait of MiltonJohn Dryden (1631–1700)
In Tonson’s Folio Edition of the ‘Paradise Lost’
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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 farther go;
To make a third she joined the former two.