 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 418 pages
...deciding by taste* rather than by principles. It is not uncommon, for those who have grown wise by 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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 530 pages
...is not uncommon for those who have grown wise by the labour of others to add a little of their oxvn, and overlook their masters. Addison is now despised...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... | |
 | Literature - 1980 - 552 pages
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Addison is now despised by some who perhaps would never have seen his defects but by the lights which he afforded them. 
