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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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Essays from Addison

Joseph Addison - 1907 - 142 pages
...deciding by taste rather than by principles. " It ia not uncommon for those who have grown wise through 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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Contemporary Criticisms of Dr. Samuel Johnson, His Works, and His Biographers

John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 436 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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Letture inglesi: coordinate al programma governativo dei licei e corredate ...

Carlo Formichi - 1925 - 518 pages
...judgment, or more fear to offend than desire to instruct. 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. # * # The knowledge of external nature, and the sciences which that knowledge requires or...
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Joseph Addison and Richard Steele: The Critical Heritage

Edward Alan Bloom, Lillian D. Bloom - 1995 - 508 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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The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry

John Sitter - 2001 - 322 pages
...underestimating Addison's intellectual achievement: "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." Johnson's portrait of the critical world before and after Addison pays the author the very...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 418 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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