 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 Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Page 138by Samuel Johnson - 1820Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1909 - 562 pages
...by taste rather than by principles. 20 It is not uncommon for those who have grown wise by the labor of others, to add a little of their own, and overlook...but by the lights which he afforded them. That he al- 25 ways wrote as he would think it necessary to write now, cannot be affirmed; his instructions... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 pages
...experimental, rather than scientific; and he is considered as deciding by taste rather than by principles. 20 It is not uncommon for those who have grown wise by the labor of others, to add a little of their own, and overlook their masters. Addison is now despised... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 pages
...condemned as tentative or experimental, rather than scientific, and he is considered as deciding by taste rather than by principles. It is not uncommon for those who have grown wise by the labor of others to add a little of their own, and overlook their masters. Addison is now despised by... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 754 pages
...condemned as tentative or experimental, rather than scientific, and he is considered as deciding by taste rather than by principles. It is not uncommon for those who have grown wise by the labor of others to add a little of their own, and overlook their masters. Addison is now despised by... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 pages
...condemned as tentative or experimental, rather than scientific, and he is considered as deciding by taste rather than by principles. It is not uncommon for those who have grown wise by the labor of others to add a little of their own, and overlook their masters. Addison is now despised by... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 752 pages
...experimental, rather than scientific, and he is considered as deciding by taste rather thanbyprinciples. "~ It is not uncommon for those who have grown wise by the labor of others to add a little of their own, and overlook their masters. Addison is now despised by... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 436 pages
...condemned as tentative or experimental, rather than scientific, and he is considered as deciding by taste rather than by principles. " It is not uncommon for...perhaps would never have seen his defects but by the ADDISON AS CRITIC 241 lights which he afforded them. That he always wrote as he would think it necessary... | |
 | Carlo Formichi - 1925 - 518 pages
...probably find men who have more kindness than judgment, or more fear to offend than desire to instruct. It is not uncommon for those who have grown wise by...a little of their own, and overlook their masters. # * # The knowledge of external nature, and the sciences which that knowledge requires or includes,... | |
 | Claude Julien Rawson - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 332 pages
...they have effected that reformation which their authors intended'. Of Addison himself he added that he 'is now despised by some who perhaps would never have...defects, but by the lights which he afforded them'. More than a century and a half later, in 1945, CS Lewis similarly wondered 'whether the very degree... | |
 | John Sitter - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 322 pages
...volumes of Addison"), Johnson cautions against underestimating Addison's intellectual achievement: "It is not uncommon for those who have grown wise...little of their own, and overlook their masters." Johnson's portrait of the critical world before and after Addison pays the author the very high compliment... | |
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