 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 350 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 484 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 436 páginas
...prejudice. Some seem to admire indiscriminately, whatever has been long preserved, without considering that time has sometimes co-operated with chance; all...of the moderns, and the beauties of the ancients. Wliile an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance, and when he is dead,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1824 - 794 páginas
...honour past than present excellence; and the mind contemplates gefliue through the shade of age, as ihe he is dead, we rate them by his best. To works, however, of whieft the excellence is not absolute and... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 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 absolute and definite,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 476 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. ' Dr. Johnson's Preface first appeared in 1765. Malone's Shakespeare,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1832 - 364 páginas
...considering that time has sometimes co-operated with chance : all perhaps are more willing to honor past than present excellence ; and the mind contemplates...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1833 - 1140 páginas
...prejudice. Some seem to admire indiscriminately whatever has been long preserved, without considering betray me, sir; I fear, you love mistress Page. Fal....Counter-gate; which is as hateful to me as the reek modems, and the beauties of the ancients. While an author is yet living, we estimate his powers by... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1839 - 550 páginas
...prejudice. Some seem to admire indiscriminately whatever has been long preserved, — without considering that time has sometimes co-operated with chance ;...through artificial opacity. The great contention of cri- '< ticism is, to find the faults of the moderns and the beauties of the ancients. While an author... | |
 | Henry Caslon - 1841 - 598 páginas
...prejudice. Some seem to admire indiscriminately whatever has been longpreserved, 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. SMALL PICA, No. 8. Quousque tandem almtere, Catilina, patientia... | |
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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... 
