 | 1819 - 654 pages
...this goes OQ for a hundred years longer, •what a task will await the poetical readers of 1 91 9 ! Our living poets will then be nearly as old as Pope...ten times as much fresh and fashionable poetry as is nowinterposed between us and those writers: — and if Scott and Byron and Campbell have already cast... | |
 | John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...as likely to be permanent as present success can make it. Now, if this goes on for a hundred years longer, what a task will await the poetical readers...us and those writers : — and if Scott, and Byron, and Campbell, have already cast Pope and Swift a good deal into the shade, in what form and dimensions... | |
 | William Goodhugh - Best books - 1827 - 402 pages
...poetry ; poetry from the very first hands that we can boast of. Now, if this goes on for a hundred years longer, what a task will await the poetical readers...as Pope and Swift are at present ; but there will still stand between them and that generation nearly ten times as much fresh and fashionable poetry... | |
 | John Pierpont - Rare books - 1835 - 484 pages
...as likely to be permanent as present success can make it. Now, if this goes on for a hundred years longer, what a task will await the poetical readers...us and those writers : — and if Scott, and Byron, and Campbell, have already cast Pope and Swift a good deal into the shade, in what form and dimensions... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - 1836 - 426 pages
...Now, if this goes on for a hundred years longer, what a task will await the poetical readers of 1919 1 Our living poets will then be nearly as old as Pope...ten times as much fresh and fashionable poetry as is nuw interposed between us and those writers : — and if Scott and Byron and Campbell have already... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - Apologetics - 1836 - 402 pages
...Now, if this goes on for a hundred years longer, what a task will await the poetical readers of 19191 Our living poets will then be nearly as old as Pope and Swift are at present—but there will stand between them and that generation nearly ten times as much fresh and... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - Presbyterian Church - 1840 - 408 pages
...Christians had too great an interest in success can make it. Now, if this goes on for a hundred year* longer, what a task will await the poetical readers...us and those writers : — and if Scott and Byron mid Campbell have already cast Pope and Swift a good deal into the shade, in what form and dimensions... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - English essays - 1844 - 540 pages
...as likely to be permanent as present success can make it. Now, if this goes on for a hundred years longer, what a task will await the poetical readers...us and those writers : — and if Scott and Byron and Campbell have already cast Pope and Swift a good deal into the shade, in what form and dimensions... | |
 | 1849 - 608 pages
...and as likely to be permanent as present success can make it. Now if this goes on for a hundred years longer, what a task will await the poetical readers...be nearly as old as Pope and Swift are at present — and if Scott, and Byron, and Campbell have already cast Pope and Swift a good deal into the shade,... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Edinburgh review - 1846 - 692 pages
...as likely to be permanent as present success can make it. Now, if this goes on for a hundred years longer, what a task will await the poetical readers...us and those writers : — and if Scott and Byron .and Campbell have already cast Pope and Swift a good deal into the shade, in what form and dimensions... | |
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Our living poets will then be nearly as old as Pope and Swift are at present — but there will stand between them and that generation nearly ten times as much fresh and fashionable poetry as is now interposed between us and those writers : — and if... 
