| 1819 - 654 pages
...preserved, in a narrower and lieebler frame. When we look back upon the havoc which two hundred, year j have thus made in the ranks of our immortals — and,...disappearance to the quick succession of new competitors, and die accumulation of more good works than there is time to peruse, — we cannot help being dismayed... | |
| John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 pages
...its spirit may yet be preserved, in a narrower and feebler frame. When we look back upon the havock which two hundred years have thus made in the ranks...writers of the present day. There never was an age so prolifick of popular poetr)' as that in which we now live ; — and as wealth, population, and education... | |
| John Pierpont - 1835 - 484 pages
...some sparks of its spirit may yet be preserved in a narrower and feebler frame. When we look back upon the havoc which two hundred years have thus made in...help being dismayed at the prospect which lies before trfe writers of the present day. There never was an age so prolific of popular poetry as that in which... | |
| Thomas Chalmers - 1836 - 402 pages
...look back upon the havoc which two hundred years have thus made in tluj ranks of our immortals—and, above all, when we refer their rapid disappearance,...accumulation of more good works than there is time to peruse,—we cannot help being dismayed at the prospect which lies before the writers of the present... | |
| Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 794 pages
...sparks of its spirit may yet be preserved, in a narrower and feebler frame. When we look back upon the havoc which two hundred years have thus made in...peruse, we cannot help being dismayed at the prospect wh'ch lies before the writers of the present day. There never was an age so prolific of popular poetry... | |
| Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 692 pages
...spirit may yet be preserved, in a narrower and feebler flame. When we look back upon the havoc wliich two hundred years have thus made in the ranks of our...— we cannot help being dismayed at the prospect wliich lies before the writers of the present day. There never was an age so prolific of popular poetry... | |
| Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 682 pages
...sparks of its spirit may yet be preserved, in a narrower and feebler flame. When we look back upon the havoc which two hundred years have thus made in...accumulation of more good works than there is time to penise, — we cannot help being dismayed at the prospect which lies before the writers of the present... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 768 pages
...some sparks of its spirit may yet be preserved in a narrower and fcebler frame. When we look back upon the havoc which two hundred years have thus made in...of our immortals — and, above all, when we refer thcir rapid disappearanee to the quick succession of new competitors, and the aecumulation of more... | |
| 1852 - 782 pages
...sparks of its spirit may yet be preserved, in a narrower and feebler frame. When we look back upon nk, an annual supply of about ten thousand lines of good staple poetry—poetry from the very аде so prolific of popular poetry as that in which we now live ;—and as wealth, population, and... | |
| 1852 - 782 pages
...sparks of its spirit maj yet be preserved, in a narrower and feebler frame. When we look back upon the havoc which two hundred years have thus made in...the writers of the present day. There never was an аде so prolific of popular poetry as that in which we now live ; — and as wealth, population,... | |
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