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The Dramatick Works of William Shakespeare: Printed Complete, with D. Samuel ... - Page 27
by William Shakespeare - 1802
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Mr. Johnson's Preface to His Edition of Shakespear's Plays..

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...
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The plays of William Shakespeare, with the corrections and illustr ..., Volume 1

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...
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Prefaces. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of Windsor

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...
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Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces, Volume 2

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...
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Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces, Volume 2

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...
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Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces, Volume 2

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,...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare in Ten Volumes: Prefaces. The tempest. The ...

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...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The Adventurer. Philological tracts

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...
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The Dramatick Writings of Will. Shakspere: With the Notes of All ..., Volume 1

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,...
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Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose, Selected ...

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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