 | 1819 - 654 pages
...Indolence, and nothing else, for Thomson — and the whole Rape of the Lock, and nothing else, for Pope. Next to the impression of the vast fertility, compass,...authors, whose works are cited in these volumes, by far die greater part of whom were celebrated in their generation, there are not thirty who now enjoy any... | |
 | 1849 - 604 pages
...strikingly, but sadly, to predict the possible condition of famous contemporaries a century hence. ' Of near ' two hundred and fifty authors whose works are cited in these ' volumes, by far the greater part of whom were celebrated in their generation, there are not thirty who now enjoy any thing... | |
 | John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...perishable nature of poetical fame. — JEFFREY. [From a Review of Campbell's Specimens of British Poets.] NEXT to the impression of the vast fertility, compass,...that recurs most frequently and forcibly to us, in accompanying1 Mr. Campbell through his wide survey, is the perishable nature of poetical fame, and... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - Apologetics - 1836 - 402 pages
...for the destruction of much that is precious, as well as of much that is worthless in authorship.* " Next to the impression of the vast fertility, compass,...promised heirs of immortality. Of near two hundred and fiftyauthors, whose works are cited in these volumes, by far the greatest part of whom were celebrated... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - English essays - 1844 - 540 pages
...Indolence, and nothing else, for Thomson — and the whole Rape of the Lock, and nothing else, for Pope. Next to the impression of the vast fertility, compass,...whose works are cited in these volumes, by far the greater part of whom were celebrated in their generation, there are not thirty who now enjoy any thing... | |
 | 1849 - 608 pages
...strikingly, but sadly, to predict the possible condition of famous contemporaries a century hence. "Of near two hundred and fifty authors whose works are cited in these volumes, by far the greater part of whom were celebrated in their generation, there are not thirty who now enjoy anything... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Edinburgh review (1802) - 1846 - 794 pages
...Indolence, and nothing else, for Thomson — and the whole Rape of the Lock, and nothing else, for Pope. Next to the impression of the vast fertility, compass,'...whose works are cited in these volumes, by far the greater part of whom were celebrated in their generation, there are not thirty who now enjoy any thing... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Edinburgh review - 1846 - 692 pages
...Indolence, and nothing else, for Thomson — and the whole Rape of the Lock, and nothing else, for Pope. Next to the impression of the vast fertility, compass,...whose works are cited in these volumes, by far the greater part of whom were celebrated in their generation, there are not thirty who now enjoy anything... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1849 - 608 pages
...strikingly, but sadly, to predict the possible condition of famous con temporaries a century hence. " keen as that of * Henry T. Tuckerman. t The late George II. Colton. the Indian hunter, o greater part of whom were celebrated in their generation, there are not thirty who now enjoy anything... | |
 | American periodicals - 1849 - 742 pages
...strikingly, but sadly, to predict the possible condition of famous contemporaries a century hence. " Of near two hundred and fifty authors whose works are cited in these volumes, by far the greater part of whom were celebrated in their generation, there are not thirty who now enjoy anything... | |
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Of near two hundred and fifty authors, whose works are cited in these volumes, by far the greater part of whom were celebrated in their generation, there are not thirty who now enjoy... 
