 | John Huddlestone Wynne - Advice columns - 1807 - 744 pages
...announce it. We are told that 'criticism ie a study by which men grow important at a very small expense ; and he whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may well support his vanity by the name of a critic ;' — and we are likewise informed that Diogenes expressed... | |
 | 1787 - 528 pages
...mere labour be obtained is too great to be willingly endured; but every man can exert luch judgment as he has upon the works of others; and he whom Nature has made weak, and Idlenefs keeps ignorant, may yet fupport his vanity by the name of aCiitick. I hope it will give comfort... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 432 pages
...mere labour be obtained is too great to be willingly endured; but every man can exert fuch judgment as he has upon the works of others; and he whom nature has made weak, and idlenefs keeps ignorant, may yet fupport his vanity by the name of a critick. I hope it will give comfort... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 442 pages
...mere labour be obtained is too great to be willingly endured ; but every man can exert fuch judgment as he has upon the works of others; and he whom nature has made •weak, and idlenefs keeps ignorant, may yet fupporc his vanity by the name of a critick. I hope it will give comfort... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 430 pages
...mere labour be obtained is too great to be willingly endured; but every man can exert fuch judgment as he has upon the works of others; and he whom nature has made weak, and idlenefs keeps ignorant, may yet fupport his vanity by the name of a critick. I hope it will give comfort... | |
 | English essays - 1803 - 222 pages
...mere labour be obtained, is too great to be willingly endured ; but every man can exert, such judgment as he has upon the works of others ; and he whom nature...passing through the world in obscurity, when I inform tfJem how easily distinction may be obtained. All the other powers of literature are coy and haughty,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 428 pages
...mere labour be obtained is too great to be willingly endured ; but every man can exert such judgment as he has upon the works of others ; and he whom nature...ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a Critick. I hope it will give comfort to great numbers who are passing through the world in obscurity,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 pages
...mere lubour be obtained is too great to be willingly endured; but every man can exert such judgment as he has upon the works of others ; and he whom nature lias made weak ; and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a Critick.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 484 pages
...mere labour be obtained is too great to be willingly endured ; but every man can exert such judgment as he has upon the works of others; and he whom nature...ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a Critick. I hope it will give comfort to great numbers who are passing through the world in obscurity,... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 378 pages
...mere labour be obtained is too great to be willingly endured; but every man can exert such judgment as he has upon the works of others ; and he whom nature...may yet support his vanity by the name of a Critic. This profession has one recommendation peculiar to itself, that it gives vent to malignity without... | |
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... CRITICISM is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. The power of invention has been conferred by Nature upon few, and the labour of learning those sciences which may, by mere labour, be obtained, is too great to... 
