 | 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 - 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 480 pages
...number of waggons and stage-coaches, attended by fellows who either invited the company to take 1 " 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." — JOHNSOX, Preface to Shatapeare, 1765. their places, or were... | |
 | Robert Macoy - 1856 - 344 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." In our case, however, the advantage is decidedly m favour of the moderns ; the arrangement is superior,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 354 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...great contention of criticism is to find the faults or the moderns and the beauties of the ancients. While an "«thor is yet living, we estimate his powers... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 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... | |
 | John William Cole - 1859 - 416 pages
...preface to Shakespeare : — " All, perhaps, are more willing to honour past than present excellence ; 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." What is here applied to authors only may be readily extended... | |
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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... 
