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- - On the strength of those facts which I thought fit to place before him he could see no reason for superseding Aylesbury. - "Bat Wing", Sax Rohmer
- - If it has been found practicable, to slide " the attention of teachers," and their approbation too, adroitly over from one " important mode of investigating the structure of our language," to an other;- if " it is gratifying to observe," that the direction thus given to public opinion sustains itself so well, and " is so generally" acquiesced in;- if it is proved, that the stereotyped praise of one system of analysis may, without alteration, be so transferred to an other, as to answer the double purpose of commending and superseding;- it is not improbable that the author's next new plates will bear the stamp of yet other " most important principles" of analysis. - "The Grammar of English Grammars", Goold Brown
- - At the time when the stage demanded action and was superseding dialogue and speech by music, spectacle, and dumb show, the romanticists conceived of tragedy only in terms of poetry, and wrote mainly in order to clothe their tragic themes in the beauty of verse. - "Tragedy", Ashley H. Thorndike
