 | Samuel Johnson - 1765 - 80 pages
...fhades of age, as the eye furveys the fun through artificial opacity. The great contention of criddfm is to find the faults of the moderns, and the beauties of the ancients. While an auA 3 thour theur is yet living we eftimate his powers by his worft performance, and when he is dead... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1768 - 676 pages
...fhades of age, as the eye furveysi the fun through artificial opacity. The great contention of criticifm is to find the faults of the moderns, and the beauties of the ancients* While an au* thour is yet living we eftimate his powers by his worft performance, and when he is dead we rate... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1773 - 554 pages
...ihades of age, as the eye furveys the fun through artificial opacity. The great contention of criticifm is to find the faults of the moderns, and the beauties...of the ancients. While an author is yet living, we eftimate his powers by his worft performance; and when he is dead, we rate them by his beft. To works,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1774 - 374 pages
...Shades of Age, as the Eye furveys the Sun through artificial Opacity. The great Contention of Criticifm is to find the Faults of the Moderns, and the Beauties of the Ancients. While an Authour is yet living, we eflimate his Powers by his worft Performance, and when he is dead, we rate... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1774 - 374 pages
...Shades of Age, as the Eye furveys the Sun through- artificial Opacity. The great Contention of Criticifm is to find the Faults of the Moderns, and the Beauties of the Ancients. While an Authour is yet living, we eftimate his Powers by his worft Performance, and when he is dead, we rate... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1778 - 746 pages
...fliades of age, as the eye furveys the fun through artificial opacity. The great contention of criticifrn is to find the faults of the moderns, and the beauties...of the ancients. While an author is yet living, we eftio»ate his powers by his worft performance; and when he is dead, we rate them by hisbeft. To works,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 500 pages
...fhades of age, as the eye furveys the fun through artificial opacity. The great contention of criticifm is to find the faults of the moderns, and the beauties...of the ancients. While an author is yet living, we eftimate his powers by his worft performance ; and when he is dead, we rate them by his beft. To works,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 346 pages
...S ON". LJL..B , • • * '" • : r".! •e. - •-•'. • i • ••; .T. .1 SAMUEL JLIJL..B. of the ancients. While an author is yet living, we...; 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 comparative... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1790 - 1058 pages
...ihade of age, as the eye furveys the fun through artificial opacity. -The great contention of criticifm is to find the faults of the moderns, and the beauties of the ancient1;. While an author is yet living, we eilimate his powers by his word performance ; and when... | |
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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. 
