 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 436 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1814 - 532 pagina’s
...more willing to honour past than present excellence ; and the mind contemplates genins through thc shades of age, as the eye surveys the sun through...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 - 1816 - 514 pagina’s
...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 - 1816 - 492 pagina’s
...whatever has been long preserved, without considering that time has sometimes co-operated with chance j all perhaps are more willing to honour past than present...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... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 1082 pagina’s
...willing to honour past than present excellence ; and the mind contemplates genius through the shade of age, as the eye surveys the sun through artificial...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 - 350 pagina’s
...prejudice. Some seem to admire indiscriminately whatever has been long preserved, without considering that time has sometimes co-operated with chance ;...through the shades of age, as the eye surveys the sua through artificial opacity. The great contention of criticism is, to find the faults of the moderns... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 420 pagina’s
...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 - 1820 - 450 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 676 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 526 pagina’s
...prejudice. Some seem to admire indiscriminately whatever has been long preserved, 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. To works, however, of which the excellence is not absolute and... | |
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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... 
