 | José Manuel González Fernández de Sevilla - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 342 pages
...also indicative of the status eighteenth-century editors gave to the playwright: "The poet, whose work I have undertaken the revision, may now begin to assume...the privilege of established fame and prescriptive veneration."10 Because of the pressure on editors to produce texts for publication, both the Shakespearean... | |
 | 1922 - 642 pages
...hundred years, is, according to Dr. Johnson's estimate, an apt subject for criticism, " for he has outlived his century, the term commonly fixed as the test of literary merit." The judgment of that century has swept much that Shelley wrote into the limbo of unread poems; but... | |
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The poet, of whose works I have undertaken the revision, may now begin to assume the dignity of an ancient, and claim the privilege of established fame and prescriptive veneration. He has long outlived his century, the term commonly fixed as the test... 
