 | Robert D. Blackman - 1908 - 328 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 - 1908 - 254 pagina’s
...prejudice. Some seem to admire indiscriminately whatever has been long preserved, without considering that time has sometimes co-operated with chance ;...moderns, and the beauties of the ancients. While an authour is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance, and when he is dead, we rate... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 710 pagina’s
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 | Robert William Rogers - 1915 - 798 pagina’s
...found surprisingly little fault. I had supposed that Johnson was right in the vigorous declaration that "the great contention of criticism is to find the...estimate his powers by his worst performance; and when he is dead we rate them by his best," but my experience has been quite the contrary, and the book passed... | |
 | Robert William Rogers - 1915 - 770 pagina’s
...found surprisingly little fault. I had supposed that Johnson was right in the vigorous declaration that "the great contention of criticism is to find the...estimate his powers by his worst performance; and when he is dead we rate them by his best," but my experience has been quite the contrary, and the book passed... | |
 | Percy Hazen Houston - 1923 - 346 pagina’s
...prejudice. Some seem to admire indiscriminately whatever has been long preserved, without considering that time has sometimes cooperated 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... | |
 | 1909 - 498 pagina’s
...co-operated with chance; all perhaps are more willing to honour past than present excellence ; and th« mind contemplates genius through the shades of age,...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... 
