 When an ancient word for its sound and significancy deserves to be revived, I have that reasonable veneration for antiquity, to restore it. All beyond this is superstition. Words are not like landmarks, so sacred as never to be removed ; customs are changed,...  Harper's New Monthly Magazine - Strana 3101898Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | John Dryden - 1800 - Počet stránok 674
...revived, I have that reasonable veneration for antiquity to restore it. All beyond this is superstition. Words are not like landmarks, so sacred as never to...when the reason ceases, for which they were enacted. As for the other part of the argument, — that his thoughts will lose of their original beauty by... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - Počet stránok 662
...revived, I have that reasonable veneration for antiquity to restore it. All beyond this is superstition. Words are not like landmarks, so sacred as never to...when the reason ceases, for which they, were enacted. As for the other part of the argument,— that his thoughts will lose of their original beauty by the... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - Počet stránok 458
...I have that reason* able veneration for antiquity, to restore it. All beyond this is superstition. Words are not like landmarks, so sacred as never to...when the reason ceases for which they were enacted. As for the other part of the argument, that his thoughts will lose of their original beauty, by the... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - Počet stránok 500
...Tyrwhitt, from the better MSS. of Chaucer, being in fact, not a blunder of the poet, but of the press. as never to be removed ; customs are changed, and...when the reason ceases for which they were enacted. As for the other part of the argument,— that his thoughts will lose of their original beauty by the... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - Počet stránok 506
...Tyrwhitt, from the better MSS. of Chaucer, being in fact, not a blunder of the poet, but of the press. as never to be removed ; customs are changed, and...when the reason ceases for which they were enacted. As for the other part of the argument, — that his thoughts will lose of their original beauty by... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - Počet stránok 664
...revived, I have that reasonable veneration for antiquity, to restore it. All beyond this is superstition. Words are not like landmarks, so sacred as never to...when. the reason ceases for which they were enacted. As for the other part of the argument, that his thoughts will lose of their original beauty, by the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - Počet stránok 620
...revived, I have that reasonable veneration for antiquity, to restore it. All beyond this is superstition. Words are not like landmarks, so sacred as never to...when the reason ceases for which they were enacted. As for the other part of the argument, that his thoughts will lose of their original beauty, by the... | |
 | 1845 - Počet stránok 816
...revived, I have that reasonable veneration for antiquity to restore it. All beyond this is superstition. Words are not like landmarks, so sacred as never to be removed. Customs arc changed, and even statutes are silently repealed, when the reason ceases for which they were enacted.... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - Počet stránok 504
...Tyrwhitt, from the better MSS. of Chaucer, being, in fact, not a blunder of the poet, but of the press. as never to be removed ; customs are changed, and...when the reason ceases for which they were enacted. As for the other part of the argument, — that his thoughts will lose of their original beauty by... | |
 | John Dryden - 1832 - Počet stránok 342
...revived, I have that reasonable veneration for antiquity, to restore it. All beyond this is superstition. Words are not like landmarks, so sacred as never to...when the reason ceases for which they were enacted. As for the other part of the argument, that his thoughts will lose of their original beauty, by the... | |
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