A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895)

Nevertheless the beginning of the ninth decade of the century did actually correspond with a real change, a real line of demarcation.

尽管如此，十年代之末的确标志着一个真正的变化和一条真正的分界线。

Cowper would have been a great poet of the second class at any time, and in some times might have attained the first.

考珀在任何时代都足以成为第二流的伟大诗人，在某些时代甚至可能跻身第一流。