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" Antiquity, like every other quality that attracts the notice of mankind, has undoubtedly votaries that reverence it, not from reason, but from prejudice. Some seem to admire indiscriminately whatever has been long preserved, without considering that time... "
How to Write for the Press: A Compilation of the Best Authorities ... - Page 109
by George Arthur Gaskell - 1884 - 151 pages
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Mr. Johnson's Preface to His Edition of Shakespear's Plays..

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

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

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,...
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Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces, Volume 2

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,...
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Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces, Volume 2

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

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

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

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

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,...
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The Literary Museum; Or, Ancient and Modern Repository: Comprising Scarce ...

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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