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" 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 some who perhaps would never have seen his defects but by the lights which he afforded them. "
The Works of the English Poets: Prefaces - Page 149
by Samuel Johnson - 1781
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Specimens of English Prose Style: From Malory to Macaulay

George Saintsbury - 1885 - 432 pages
...considered as 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 overlook their masters. Addison is now despised by some who, perhaps, would never have seen his defects, but by the...
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Specimens of English Prose Style: From Malory to Macaulay

George Saintsbury - 1885 - 432 pages
...considered as 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 overlook their masters. Addison is now despised by some who, perhaps, would never have seen his defects, but by the...
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Specimens of English Prose Style: From Malory to Macaulay

George Saintsbury - 1885 - 430 pages
...as 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 overlook their masters. Addison is now despised by some who, perhaps, would never have seen his defects, but by the...
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Wit and Wisdom of Samuel Johnson, Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 360 pages
...great profusion." ' Boswell's Life of Johnson, iii. 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 masters. Works, vii. 47o. Mean minds : IT is dangerous for mean minds to venture themselves within...
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Johnson's Life of Addison, with intr. and notes by F. Ryland

Samuel Johnson - 1893 - 152 pages
...smooth in " Eosamond," and 30 too smooth in " Cato." It is not uncommon for those who hare grown wise by the labour of others, to add a little of their own, and overlook their masters. Addison is now despised by some who perhaps would never have seen his defects, but by the...
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Charles Lamb

Alfred Ainger - 1895 - 654 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 overlook their masters. Addison is now despised by Borne who perhaps would never have seen his defects but by the...
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Lives of Milton and Addison

Samuel Johnson, John Wight Duff - 1900 - 318 pages
...considered as 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 5 and overlook their masters. Addison is now despised by some who perhaps would never have seen his...
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Essays from the Rambler and the Idler, with Passages from the Lives of the ...

Samuel Johnson - 1901 - 206 pages
...considered as 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 overlook their masters. Addison is now despised by some who perhaps would never have seen his defects, but by the...
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Lives of the English Poets: Smith-Savage

Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 456 pages
...confusion, may be said to have especially earned he left it in admirable order.* LIVES OF POETS. II L labour of others to add a little of their own, and overlook their masters '. Addison is now despised by some who perhaps would never have seen his defects, but by the...
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Selections from the Prose and Poetry of John Henry Newman

John Henry Newman - 1907 - 366 pages
...de 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 Audison as regards the purpose of inspiring...
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