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 149by Samuel Johnson - 1781Full view - About this book
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...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... | |
| John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 436 pages
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| Carlo Formichi - 1925 - 518 pages
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| Edward Alan Bloom, Lillian D. Bloom - 1995 - 508 pages
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| 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... | |
| 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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