| 1855 - 550 pages
...223, n. t Preface, pv § " It is not uncommon," says Johnson, " for those who have grown wise by fbe labour of others, to add a little of their own, and overlook their master." That is bad. Bat what shall be said of those who turn the very " little of their own" against... | |
| Robert Kemp Philp - 1866 - 930 pages
...are ever anxious to pay. " It is not uncommon," says Johnson, " for those who have grown wise by the labour of others to add a little of their own, and overlook their master's. Addison is now despised by some, who, perhaps, would never have seen his defects but by the... | |
| John Henry Newman - Church history - 1872 - 474 pages
...bold and manly eloquence of free Rome. i " It is not uncommon for those who have grown wise by the labour of others, to add a little of their own, and overlook their master." — Johnson. We have before compared Cicero to Addison as regards the purpose of inspiring... | |
| William John Courthope - 1884 - 202 pages
...very favourable judge — may be commended : " It is not uncommon for those who have grown wise by the labour of others to add a little of their own, and...perhaps would never have seen his defects but by the light he afforded them. That he always wrote as he would write now cannot be affirmed ; his instructions... | |
| Samuel Johnson - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1888 - 356 pages
...Boswell's Life of Johnson, iii. 3. Masters : IT is not uncommon for those who have grown wise by the labour of others to add a little of their own and overlook their masters. Works, vii. 470. Mean minds : IT is dangerous for mean minds to venture themselves within the sphere... | |
| Alfred Ainger - 1895 - 654 pages
...favourable judge — may be commended : — " It is not uncommon for those who have grown wise by the labour of others to add a little of their own, and...overlook their masters. Addison is now despised by Borne who perhaps would never have seen his defects but by the light he afforded them. That he always... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Wight Duff - English poetry - 1900 - 318 pages
...is not uncommon for those who have grown wise by the labour of others to add a little of their own 5 and overlook their masters. Addison is now despised...now, cannot be affirmed ; his instructions were such io as the characters of his readers made proper. That general knowledge which now circulates in common... | |
| Joseph Addison - English essays - 1907 - 142 pages
...by taste rather than by principles. " It ia not uncommon for those who have grown wise through the labour of others to add a little of their own, and...cannot be affirmed ; his instructions were such as the characters of his readers made proper. That general knowledge which now circulates in common talk was... | |
| John Henry Newman - English literature - 1907 - 362 pages
...Oral. 20 apud Tacit, and 22; Quinct. x, 2. 3 " It is not uncommon for those who have grown wise by the labour of others, to add a little of their own, and overlook their master." — Johnson. We have before compared Cicero to Addison as regards the purpose of inspiring... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1909 - 562 pages
...by taste rather than by principles. 20 It is not uncommon for those who have grown wise by the labor of others, to add a little of their own, and overlook...but by the lights which he afforded them. That he al- 25 ways wrote as he would think it necessary to write now, cannot be affirmed; his instructions... | |
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