 | William Shakespeare - 1839 - 550 pages
...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 - Printing - 1841 - 598 pages
...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1841 - 316 pages
...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. sink. I. t To works, however, of wliit-h tlje excellence ia not... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 348 pages
...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, SIIAK. \. e To works, however, of which the excellence is not... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1851 - 360 pages
...prejudice. Some seem to admire indiscriminately whatever has been long preserved, without considering that time has sometimes co-operated with chance. All,...the eye surveys the sun through artificial opacity. Preface to Shaltspeare. Adversity. Adversity has ever been considered as the state in which a man most... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - English language - 1852 - 380 pages
...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. [St Peter's College, 1848.] 159. AND surely it is not a melancholy... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1853 - 336 pages
...prejudice. Some seem to admire indiscriminately whatever has been long preBerved, without considering that time has sometimes co-operated with chance. All,...the eye surveys the sun through artificial Opacity. Preface to Shakspeare. Adversity. Adversity has ever been considered as the state in which a man most... | |
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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... 
