/ · 1894 Brewer’s · I · Immortal Three (The)
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Homer, Dante, and Milton.
“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 farther go,
To make a third, she joined the other two.”
Dryden: A Tablet to the Memory of John Milton (St. Mary-le-Bow, Cheapside).
⁂ It was originally in the church of All Hallows, Bread Street.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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