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" THAT praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to excellence are paid to antiquity, is a complaint likely to be always continued by those, who, being able to add nothing to truth, hope for eminence from the heresies... "
Mr. Johnson's Preface to His Edition of Shakespear's Plays.. - Page v
by Samuel Johnson - 1765 - 72 pages
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The plays of William Shakespeare, with the corrections and illustr ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1768 - 676 pages
...honours due only to 1 excellence are paid to antiquity, is a complaint likely to be always continued,by thofe, who, being able to add nothing to truth, hope...upon confolatory expedients, are willing to hope from poftericy what thd prefent age refufcs, and flatter themfelves that thd regard which is yet denied...
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Prefaces. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of Windsor

William Shakespeare - 1773 - 554 pages
...lavifhed on the dead, and that the honours due only to excellence are paid to antiquity, is a complaint likely to be always continued by thofe, who, being...willing to hope from pofterity what the prefent age refutes, and flatter themfelves that the regard, which is yet denied by envy, will be at laft bellowed...
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Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces, Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1774 - 374 pages
...lavifhed oni the Dead, and that the Honours due only to Excellence are paid to Antiquity, is a Complaint likely to be always continued by thofe, who, being...upon confolatory Expedients, are willing to hope from Poflerity what the prefent Age refufcs, and flatter themfelves that the Regard which is yet denied...
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Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces, Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1774 - 412 pages
...on the Dead, and that the Honours due only to Excellence are paid to Antiquity, is a Complaint Kkely to be always continued by thofe, who, being able to...upon confolatory Expedients, are willing to hope from Poflerity what the ptefent Age refufcs, and flatter themfelves that the Regard which is yet denied...
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Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces, Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1774 - 374 pages
...lavifhed on J. the Dead, and that the Honours due only to Excellence are paid to Antiquity, is a Complaint likely to be always continued by thofe, who, being...Difappointment upon confolatory Expedients, are willing to hope fiom Poflerity what the prefe'nt Age refufes, and flatter themfelves that the Regard which is yet denied...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The Adventurer. Philological tracts

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 500 pages
...lavifhed oa the dead, and that the honours due only to excellence are paid to antiquity, is a complaint likely to be always continued by thofe, who, being...the regard, which is yet denied by envy, will be at last beftowed by time. Antiquity, like every other quality that attracts the notice of mankind, has...
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The Dramatick Writings of Will. Shakspere: With the Notes of All ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1788 - 346 pages
...due only to excellence are paid to antiquity, is a complaint likely to be always continued by those, who, ' being able to add nothing to truth, hope for eminence from the heresies of paradox ; or those, who, being forced by disappointment upon consolatory expedients, are...
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Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose, Selected ...

Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1790 - 1058 pages
...laviihed on the dead, and that the honours due only to excellence are paid to antiquity, is x complaint likely to be always continued by thofe, who, being...eminence from the herefies of paradox; or thofe, who, bang forced by difappointment upon confolatory expedients, are willing to hope from pofterity what...
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The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections ...

William Shakespeare - 1793 - 860 pages
...on the _ dead, and that the honours due only to ex. cellence are paid to antiquity, is a complaint likely to be always continued by thofe, who, being...to add nothing to truth, hope for eminence from the heretics of paradox ; or thofe, who, being forced by difappointment upon confolatory expedients, arc...
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The Plays of William Shakspeare. ....

William Shakespeare - 1800 - 330 pages
...lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to excellence are paid to antiquity, is a complaint likely to be always continued by thofe, who, being able to add nothing to truth, hope tor eminence from the hereiies of paradox ; or thofe, who, being forced by difappointment upon confolatory...
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