 | Robert D. Blackman - Authorship - 1908 - 328 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. To works, however, of which the excellence is not absolute and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1908 - 254 pages
...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... | |
 | Robert William Rogers - Assyria - 1915 - 798 pages
...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 - Assyria - 1915 - 770 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 498 pages
...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... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 pages
...prejudice. Some seem to admire indiscriminately whatever has been long preserved, without considering that time has sometimes co-operated with chance; all...the faults of the moderns, and the beauties of the ancients.1 While an authour is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance, and when... | |
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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... 
