 | English literature - 1807 - 542 pages
...either ol their characters, or of their works: "while а тли is yet living," fsavs Dr. Johnson,) " we estimate his powers by his worst performance ; and when he is dead, we rate them by his Ьеч1 :" therefore, recurring to our first proposition ; there is that delicacy required Id enable... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 346 pages
...LJL..B , • • * '" • : r".! •e. - •-•'. • i • ••; .T. .1 SAMUEL JLIJL..B. of the ancients. While an author is yet living, we estimate...performance ; and} when he is dead, we rate them by his best. To works, however, of which the excellence is not absolute and definite, but gradual and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 494 pages
...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...performance ; and when he is dead, we rate them by his best. To works, however, of which the excellence is not absolute and definite, but gradual and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 394 pages
...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...performance ; and when he is dead, we rate them by his best. To works, however, of which the excellence is not absolute and definite, but gradual and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 376 pages
...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 pe. formance, and when he is dead, we rate them by his best. To works, however, of which the excellence... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 390 pages
...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...performance; and when he is dead, we rate them by his best. To works, however, of which the excellence is not absolute and definite, but gradual and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 488 pages
...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...performance, and whe.n he is dead, we rate them by his best. To works, however, of which the excellence is not absolute and definite, but gradual and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 394 pages
...contention of criticism is to find the faults of the moderns, and the beauties of the ancients. \Vhile an author is yet living, we estimate his powers by...performance ; and when he is dead, we rate them by his best. To works, however, of which the excellence is not absolute and definite, but gradual and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 486 pages
...3 great 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...performance, and when he is dead, we rate them by his best. To works,, how ever, of which the excellence is '' not absolute and definite, but gradual... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 444 pages
...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...performance ; and when he is •dead, we rate them by his best. To works, however, of which the excellence is not absolute and definite, but gradual and... | |
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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. 
