 | Richard C. AUSTIN - 1864 - 176 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. Dr. Johnson. Poor is the triumph o'er the timid hare ! Scared... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 592 pages
...prejudice. Some seem to admire indiscriminately whatever has been long preserved, without considering that time has sometimes co-operated with chance ;...contention of criticism is to find the faults of the modems and the beauties of the ancients. While an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his... | |
 | Gems - English poetry - 1866 - 168 pages
...prejudice. Some seem to admire indiscriminately whatever has been long preserved, without considering that time has sometimes co-operated with chance ;...of the ancients. While an author is yet living, we esteem his powers by his worst performance, and when he is dead we rate them by his best. The reverence... | |
 | Andrew Ure - Industrial arts - 1867 - 1144 pages
...prejudice. Some seem to admire indiscriminately whatever has been long preserved, without considering that time has sometimes co-operated with chance: all...is yet living, we estimate his powers by his worst performances ; and when he is dead, we rale them by his best. Antiquity, like every other \coJa quality... | |
 | R. BARRETT (AND SONS.) - Printing - 1874 - 76 pages
...prejudice. Some seem to admire indiscriminately whatever has been long preserved, without considering that time has sometimes co-operated with chance :...is yet living, we estimate his powers by his worst performances; and when he is dead, we rate them by his best. To works, however, of which the excellence... | |
 | Joseph Angus - English literature - 1880 - 726 pages
...prejudice. Some seem to admire indiscriminately whatever has been long preserved, without considering that time has sometimes co-operated with chance; all...is yet living, we estimate his powers by his worst performances, and when he is dead, we rate them by his best. Shakespeare may now begin to assume the... | |
 | Arthur B. Davison - English literature - 1880 - 396 pages
...with words, and the want of spirit she recompenses with malignity. Johnson, idler, N0. 6o. 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. Johnson, Preface to Shahspeare. CRITICISM. GRANT me patience,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1882 - 996 pages
...willing to honour past than present excellence : and the mind contemplates genius through the 'hades . thou whoreson, obscene, greasy tallow-kecch, Fat....these men ic Kendal green, when it was so dark th esliniale.his__powers by UU worst performance, and «nien_ he is dead, we, rate them by his best. "To~works,... | |
 | Addison Peale Russell - English literature - 1883 - 378 pages
...sympathy, it would seem, rather than from conviction." Johnson, in his Preface to Shakespeare, says : " 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 the best." Lord Brougham conceived the brilliant idea of giving out that... | |
 | George Arthur Gaskell - Authorship - 1884 - 164 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...is yet living, we estimate his powers by his worst performances ; and when he is dead, we rate them by his besL To works, however, of which the excellence... | |
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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... 
