| Samuel Johnson - 1765 - 80 pages
...themfelves that the regard which is yet denied by envy, will be at laft beftowed by time. Antiquity, like every other quality that, attracts the notice...has undoubtedly votaries that reverence it, not from reafon, but from prejudice. Some feem to admire indifcriminately whatever has been long preferved,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1768 - 676 pages
...themfelves that thd regard which is yet denied by envy, will be at lad beftowed by time. Antiquity, like every other quality that attracts the notice...has undoubtedly votaries that reverence it, not from reafon, but from prejudice. Some feem to admire indifcriminately whatever has been long preferved,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1773 - 554 pages
...themfelves that the regard, which is yet denied by envy, will be at laft bellowed by time. Antiquity* like every other quality that attracts the notice...has undoubtedly votaries that reverence it, not from reafon, but from prejudice. Some feem to admire indifcriminately whatever has been long preferved,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 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,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 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,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1778 - 746 pages
...themfelves that the regard, which is ye"t denied by envy, will be at laft beftowed by time. Antiquity, like every other quality that attracts the notice...has undoubtedly votaries that reverence it, not from reafon, but from prejudice. Some feem to admire indifcriminately whatever has been long preferved,... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 500 pages
...themfelves that the regard, which is yet denied by envy, will be at last beftowed by time. Antiquity, like every other quality that attracts the notice...has undoubtedly votaries that reverence it, not from reafon, but from prejudice. Some feem to admire indifcriminately whatever has been long preferved,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1788 - 346 pages
...themselves that the regard, which is yet denied by envy, will be at last bestowed by time. Antiquity, like every other quality that attracts the notice...co-operated with chance ; all perhaps are more willing to honour past than present excellence j and the mind contemplates genius through the shades of age, as... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1790 - 1058 pages
...themfclvcs that the regard, which is yet denied by envy, will be at lift bellowed by time. Antiquity, like every other quality that attracts the notice...has undoubtedly votaries that reverence it, not from reafon, but from prejudice. Some feera to admire indifcriminately whatever has been lor.g preferved,... | |
| Francis Godolphin Waldron - 1792 - 356 pages
...Sir, Your moil obedient fervant, FG WALDRON. Jan. 2, 1792. ftL ADVERTISEMENT, (( A _£^LNTiftuiTY, like every other quality that attracts the notice...has undoubtedly votaries that reverence it, not from reafon, but from prejudice. Some feem p admire indifcriminately whatever has been long preferved, without... | |
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