 | 1819 - 654 pages
...ascribe to them even these dimensions of the end of a century. After a lapse of 250years, we are afraid to think of the space they may have shrunk into. We have no Shakespeare, alas ! to shed a never-setting light on his contemporaries : — and if we continue to... | |
 | John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...ascribe to them even those dimensions at the end of a century. After a lapse of 250 years, we are afraid to think of the space they may have shrunk into. We...art of short-hand reading invented— or all reading must be given up in despair. • •' i • i LESSON CXIX. V'J The Head-Stone.— WILSON. THE coffin... | |
 | William Goodhugh - Best books - 1827 - 402 pages
...light on his contemporaries; and if we continue to write and rhyme at the present rate for two hundred years longer, there must be some new art of short-hand...invented, or all reading will be given up in despair. Horn. Died. Editions. 1553 1599 EDMUND SPENSER. Edited by fodd. i . JOHN LYLY. Wrote Euphuea, and nine... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1835 - 484 pages
...ascribe to them even those dimensions at the end of a century. After a lapse of 250 years, we are afraid to think of the space they may have shrunk into. We...of short-hand reading invented — or all reading must be given up in despair. LESSON CXIX. The Head- Stone.— WILSON. THE coffin was let down to the... | |
 | John Pierpont - Rare books - 1835 - 484 pages
...ascribe to them even those dimensions at the end of a century. After a lapse of 250 years, we are afraid to think of the space they may have shrunk into. We...contemporaries ; — and if we continue to write and rhyme at ihe present rate for 200 years longer, there must be some new art of short-hand reading invented —... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - Apologetics - 1836 - 402 pages
...ascribe to them even these dimensions of the end of a century. After a lapse of 250 years, we are afraid to think of the space they may have shrunk into. We...Shakspeare, alas! to shed a never-setting light on his contemporaries:—and if we continue to write and rhyme at the present rate for 200 years longer, there... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - Presbyterian Church - 1840 - 408 pages
...ascribe to them even these dimensions of the end of a century. After a lapse of 250 years, we are afraid to think of the space they may have shrunk into. We have no Shakspeare, alas ! to shed a never-betting light on his contemporaries : — and if we continue to write and rhyme at the present... | |
 | 1849 - 608 pages
...those dimensions at the end of a century. After a lapse of two hundred and fifty years, we are afraid to think of the space they may have shrunk into. We...continue to write and rhyme at the present rate for two hundred years longer, there must be some new art of short-hand reading invented — or all reading... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - English essays - 1844 - 540 pages
...ascribe to them even those dimensions at the end of a century. After a lapse of 250 years, we are afraid to think of the space they may have shrunk into. We have no Shakespeare, alas ! to shed a never-setting light on his contemporaries: — and if we continue to... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 682 pages
...of 250 years, we are afraid to think of the space they may have shrunk into. We have no Shakespeare, alas ! to shed a never-setting light on his contemporaries...for 200 years longer, there must be some new art of short-Jiand reading invented — or all reading will bo given up in despair. We need not distress ourselves,... | |
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... shall sit in our mouldering chair, and more than half prefer them to those by whom they have been superseded ! It is an hyperbole of good nature, however, we fear, to ascribe to them even those dimensions at the end of a century. 
