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"Illustrious examples engross, prejudice, and intimidate. They engross our attention, and so prevent a due inspection of ourselves; they prejudice our judgment in favour of their abilities, and so lessen the sense of our own; and they intimidate us with the splendour of their renown, and thus under diffidence bury our strength." |
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Edward Young (1683-1765), British poet, dramatist. Conjectures on Original Composition (1759).
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"Some, for renown, on scraps of learning dote,
And think they grow immortal as they quote." |
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Edward Young (1683-1765), British poet, playwright. repr. In Complete Works, ed. J. Doran (1968). Love of Fame: The Universal Passion, satire 1, l. 89-90 (1725-1728).
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