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Zoilism or detraction blast well-intended labours.
A History of Elizabethan Literature George Saintsbury 1889
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If it is expected, as a matter of impartiality, that I should here print adverse criticisms as well as those which are favourable, I simply decline to be so foolish: a caricature impresses where a portrait is forgotten: the litera scripta in printer's ink remains and is quotable for ever, and I do not think it worth while deliberately to traduce myself and my book children by adopting the opinions of dyspeptic scribes who will find how well I think of them in my Proverbial Essay “Zoilism;” which, by the way, I read at St. Andrews, before some chiefs of that university, with A.K.H.B. in the chair.
My Life as an Author Tupper, Martin F 1886
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BRING candid eyes unto the perusal of men’s works, and let not Zoilism [102] or detraction blast well-intended labours.
Christian Morals 1605-1682 1863
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