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Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory: Delivered to the Classes of Senior and ... - Page 35
by John Quincy Adams - 1810
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Mr. Johnson's Preface to His Edition of Shakespear's Plays..

Samuel Johnson - 1765 - 80 pages
...excellent till it has been compared with other works of the fame kind. Demonftration immediately dilplays its power, and has nothing to hope or fear from the...flux of years ; but works tentative and experimental muft be eftimated by their proportion to the general and collective ability of man, as it is difcovered...
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The plays of William Shakespeare, with the corrections and illustr ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1768 - 676 pages
...excellent till it has been compared with other works of the fame kind. Demonftration immediately difplays its power, and has nothing to hope or fear from the flux of years j but works tentative and experimental muft be eftimated by their proportion to the general and collective...
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Prefaces. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of Windsor

William Shakespeare - 1773 - 554 pages
...excellent till it has been compared with other works of the fame kind. Demonftration immediately difplays its power, and has nothing to hope or fear from the flux of years j but works tentative and experimental muft be eftimated by their proportion to the general and collective...
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Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces, Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1774 - 374 pages
...excellent till it has been compared with otker Works of the fame Kind. Demonftration immediately difplays its Power, and has nothing to hope or fear from the...Flux of Years ; but Works tentative and experimental muft be eftimated by theil Proportion to the general and colle£"live Ability of Man, as it is difcovered...
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Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces, Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1774 - 412 pages
...excellent till it has been compared with other Works of the fame Kind. Demonftration immediately difplays its Power, and has nothing to hope or fear from the...Flux of Years ; but Works tentative and experimental muft be eftimated by their Proportion to the general and coUedive Ability of Man, as it is difcovered...
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Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces, Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1774 - 374 pages
...excellent till it has been compared with otker Works of the fame Kind. Dcmonftration immediately difplays its Power, and has nothing to hope or fear from the Flux of Years t but Works tentative and experimental muft be eftimated by their Proportion to the general and collective...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare in Ten Volumes: Prefaces. The tempest. The ...

William Shakespeare - 1778 - 746 pages
...nothing to hope or fear from the flux of years; but works tentative and experimental muft be eftimated by their proportion to the general and collective ability of man, as it is difcovered in a long fuccefljon. of endeavours. Of the firft building that was raifed,. it might be...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The Adventurer. Philological tracts

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 500 pages
...excellent till it has been compared with other works of the fame kind. Demonfcration immediately difplays its power, and has nothing to hope or fear from the...flux of years ; but works tentative and experimental muft be eftimated by their proportion to thte general and collective ability of man, as it is difcovered...
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The Dramatick Writings of Will. Shakspere: With the Notes of All ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1788 - 346 pages
...genius, nothing can be styled excellent till it has been compare<i with other works of the same kind. Demonstration immediately displays its power, and...is discovered in a long succession of endeavours. Of the first building that was raised, it might be with certainty determined that .it was round or...
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Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose, Selected ...

Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1790 - 1058 pages
...nothing to hope or fcar from the flux of years ; but works tentative and experimental mull be eftimated by their proportion to the general and collective ability of man, as it is discovered и a long fucceflion of endeavours. Of the firit building that was raifed, it might be with certainty...
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