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his excellences and defects in equal scales
Dr. Johnson’s Preface to his edition of Shakespear looks like a laborious attempt to bury the characteristic merits of his author under a load of cumbrous phraseology, and to weigh his excellences and defects in equal scales, stuffed full of ‘swelling figures and sonorous epithets.’
— from The Collected Works of William Hazlitt, Vol. 01 (of 12) by William Hazlitt

had experienced a delight in every step
A born fighter, he had experienced a delight in every step on the road to success, which was strangely lacking when the summit was reached.
— from What a Man Wills by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

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