...nor supply any faction with invectives; they can neither indulge vanity nor gratify malignity; but are read without any other reason than the desire...from one generation to another, have received new honors at every transmission. But because human judgment, though it be gradually gaining upon certainty,...

...the Preface to his edition of the Plays of Shakespeare, published in 1765 ; adding that these plays have 'passed through variations of taste and changes...have received new honours at every transmission.... The sand heaped by one flood is scattered by another, but the rock always continues in its place. The...

...nor supply any faction with invectives; they can neither indulge vanity nor gratify malignity; but are read without any other reason than the desire...thus unassisted by interest or passion, they have past through variations of taste and changes of manners, and, as they devolved from one generation...

...nor supply any faction with invectives; they can neither indulge vanity nor gratify malignity; but are read without any other reason than the desire...from one generation to another, have received new honors at every transmission. But because human judgment, though it be gradually gaining upon certainty,...

...nor supply any faction with invectives; they can neither indulge vanity nor gratify malignity, but are read without any other reason than the desire...only as pleasure is obtained; yet, thus unassisted by interest17 or passion, they have passed through variations of taste and changes of manners and, as...

...258-64. 3-4 A common eighteenth-century formula, as in Dr Johnson's remark that the works of Shakespeare, 'as they devolved from one generation to another, have received new honours at every transmission' (7:61). Locke calls language the 'bond' and 'conduit, whereby the improvements of knowledge are conveyed...

...nor supply any faction with invectives; they can neither indulge vanity nor gratify malignity, but are read without any other reason than the desire...thus unassisted by interest or passion, they have past through variations of taste and changes of manners, and as they devolved from one generation to...

...nor supply any faction with invectives; they can neither indulge vanity nor gratify malignity, but are read without any other reason than the desire...thus unassisted by interest or passion, they have past through variations of taste and changes of manners, and, as they have devolved from one generation...

...enmities has perished. . . . His works . . . thus onassisted hy interest or passion, have past [sic] through variations of taste and changes of manners,...from one generation to another, have received new honors at every transmission.' The notion that literary greatness consists in the power of a work to...

...nor supply any faction with invectives; they can neither indulge vanity nor gratify malignity; but are read without any other reason than the desire...another, have received new honours at every transmission. 5 What Hill has observed of Swift's vulnerability to 'those distortions of meaning which occur when...