former age

I need not attempt, like authors of a former age, to solicit a favorable criticism, from the "gentle reader."

A former age expressed itself in Gregorian chants; ours, no less sincerely, disguises its feelings in ragtime.

In no former age had finer copies of books been produced; in none had so many been transcribed.

He was a fine model of a man, whose religion partook of the character of a former age.

Show us the man invested with absolute power, in that or in any former age, who abused it less.