 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - عدد الصفحات: 492
...through artificial opacity. The great contention of criticism is to find the faults of the moderns, and the beauties of the ancients. While an author is yet living we 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - عدد الصفحات: 514
...through artificial opacity. The great contention of criticism is to find the faults of the moderns, and the beauties of the ancients. While an author is yet living we 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... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - عدد الصفحات: 1082
...through artificial opacity. The great contention of criticism is to find the faults of. the moderns, and the beauties of the ancients. While an author is yet living, we estimate his Bowers by his worst performance ; and when he is dead, we rate them by his best. To works, however,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1817 - عدد الصفحات: 350
...artificial opacity. The great contention of criticism is, to find the faults of the moderns and the beautiea of the ancients. While an author is yet living, we 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - عدد الصفحات: 450
...through artificial opacity. The great contention of criticism is to find the faults of the moderns, and the beauties of the ancients. While an author is yet living, we 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - عدد الصفحات: 668
...through artificial opacity. The great contention of criticism is to find the faults of the moderns, and the beauties of the ancients. While an author is yet living, we 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - عدد الصفحات: 350
...through artificial opacity. The great contention of criticism is, to find the faults of the moderns and the beauties of the ancients. While an author is yet living, we 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - عدد الصفحات: 526
...through artificial opacity. The great contention of criticism is to find the faults of the moderns, and the beauties of the ancients. While an author is yet living, we 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - عدد الصفحات: 484
...through artificial opacity. The great contention of criticism is to find the faults of the moderns, and the beauties of the ancients. While an author is yet living we 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - عدد الصفحات: 436
...contention of criticism is to find the faults 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, we rate them by his best. To works, however, of which the excellence... | |
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... genius through the shades of age, as the eye surveys the sun through artificial opacity. The great contention of criticism is to find the faults of the moderns, and the beauties of the ancients. While an author is yet living we estimate his powers... 
