| Samuel Johnson - 1765 - 80 pages
...refufes, and flatter themfelves that the regard which is yet denied by envy, will be at laft beftowed by time. Antiquity, like every other quality that,...from reafon, but from prejudice. Some feem to admire indifcriminately whatever has been long preferved, without ccnfidering that time has fometimes co-operated... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1768 - 676 pages
...refufcs, and flatter themfelves that thd regard which is yet denied by envy, will be at lad beftowed by time. Antiquity, like every other quality that...from reafon, but from prejudice. Some feem to admire indifcriminately whatever has been long preferved, without confidering that time has fometimes co-operated... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1773 - 554 pages
...refutes, and flatter themfelves that the regard, which is yet denied by envy, will be at laft bellowed by time. Antiquity* like every other quality that...from reafon, but from prejudice. Some feem to admire indifcriminately whatever has been long preferved, without confidering that time has fometimes co-operated... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1774 - 374 pages
...refufcs, and flatter themfelves that the Regard which is yet denied by Envy, will be at laft beftowed by Time. Antiquity, like every other Quality that...Votaries that reverence it, not from Reafon, but from Prejujudice. Some feem to admire indifcriminately whatever has been long preferved, without confidering... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1774 - 412 pages
...the Regard which is yet denied by Envy, will be at laft beftowed by Time. Antiquity, like every oiher Quality that attracts the Notice of Mankind, has undoubtedly...Votaries that reverence it, not from Reafon, but from Prejujudice. Some feem to admire indifcriminately w,hatcver has been long preferved, without confidering... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1774 - 374 pages
...the Regard which is yet denied by Envy, will be at laft beftowed by Time. Antiquity, like every oiher Quality that attracts the Notice of Mankind, has undoubtedly Votaries that reverence it, not from Pieafon, but from Prejujudice. Some fecm to admire mdifcriminately whatever has been long preferved,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1778 - 746 pages
...votaries that reverence it, not from reafon, but from prejudice. Some feem to admire indifcriminately whatever has been long preferved, without confidering...excellence ; and the mind contemplates genius through the fliades of age, as the eye furveys the fun through artificial opacity. The great contention of criticifrn... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 500 pages
...refufes, and flatter themfelves that the regard, which is yet denied by envy, will be at last beftowed by time. Antiquity, like every other quality that...from reafon, but from prejudice. Some feem to admire indifcriminately whatever has been long preferved, without confidering that time has fometimes co operated... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1788 - 346 pages
...refuses, and flatter themselves that the regard, which is yet denied by envy, will be at last bestowed by time. Antiquity, like every other quality that...has undoubtedly votaries that reverence it, not from reason, but from prejudice. Some seem to admire indiscriminately whatever has been long preserved,... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1790 - 1058 pages
...refufes, and flatter themfclvcs that the regard, which is yet denied by envy, will be at lift bellowed by time. Antiquity, like every other quality that...reverence it, not from reafon, but from prejudice. Some feera to admire indifcriminately whatever has been lor.g preferved, without confidering that time has... | |
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