 | Samuel Johnson, George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1888 - 356 páginas
...fighting : but being all cowards, we go on very well." ' Boswell's Life of 'Johnson, iii. 326. Criticism : THE great contention of criticism is to find the faults...estimate his powers by his worst performance ; and when he is dead we rate them by his best. Works, v. 103. 'I MENTIONED Mallet's tragedy of Elvira which had... | |
 | 1888 - 576 páginas
...prejudice. Some seem to admire indiscriminately whatever has been long preserved, without considering that time has sometimes co-operated with chance ;...shades of age, as the eye surveys the sun through artif,cial opacity. The great contention of criticism is to find the faults of the moderns, and the... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 720 páginas
...criticism. 1002 Johnson: Boswell's Life of Joli nvon. V. 222. (Georne Birkberk Hill, Editor, 1887.) The great contention of criticism is to find the faults...estimate his powers by his worst performance, and when he is dead we rate them by his best. 100:3 Johnson: Works. V. 103. (Oxford edition, 1825.) Doubtless... | |
 | Robert D. Blackman - 1898 - 364 páginas
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 | 1900 - 570 páginas
...prejudice. Some seem to admire indiscriminately whatever has been long preserved, without considering that time has sometimes co-operated with chance ;...estimate his powers by his worst performance ; and when he is dead, we rate them by his best. To works, however, of which the excellence is not absolute and... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1900 - 332 páginas
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 | David Nichol Smith - 1903 - 450 páginas
...prejudice. Some seem to admire indiscriminately whatever has been long preserved, without considering that time has sometimes co-operated with chance ;...estimate his powers by his worst performance; and when he is dead, we rate them by his best. To works, however, of which the excellence is not absolute and... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1903 - 434 páginas
...prejudice. Some seem to admire indiscriminately whatever has been long preserved, without considering that time has sometimes co-operated with chance ;...estimate his powers by his worst performance ; and when he is dead, we rate them by his best. To works, however, of which the excellence is not absolute and... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1905 - 494 páginas
...prejudice. Some seem to admire indiscriminately whatever has been long preserved, without considering that time has sometimes co-operated with chance; all...estimate his powers by his worst performance, and when he is dead we rate them by his best. To works, however, of which the excellence is not absolute and... | |
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Antiquity, like every other quality that attracts the notice of mankind has undoubtedly votaries that reverence it, not from reason, but from prejudice. Some seem to admire indiscriminately whatever has been long preserved without considering that time... 
