| William Shakespeare - 1773 - 554 σελίδες
...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, John Hawkins - 1787 - 500 σελίδες
...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 σελίδες
...S ON". LJL..B , • • * '" • : r".! •e. - •-•'. • i • ••; .T. .1 SAMUEL JLIJL..B. of the ancients. 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. To works, however, of which the excellence... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1793 - 860 σελίδες
...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 j and when he is dead, we rate them by his beft. To works,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1800 - 330 σελίδες
...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 word performance j and when, he is dead, we rate them by his beft. To works,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 454 σελίδες
...artificial opacity. The great vx : 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 - 1803 - 494 σελίδες
...through artificial 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 performance ; and when he is dead, we rate them by his best. To works, however, of which the excellence... | |
| William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Samuel Johnson - 1803 - 542 σελίδες
...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 - 1802 - 422 σελίδες
...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 bed. To works,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 σελίδες
...through artificial 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... | |
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