 | 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1768 - 676 pages
...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1773 - 554 pages
...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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1774 - 374 pages
...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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1774 - 374 pages
...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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 500 pages
...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,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1790 - 1058 pages
...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1793 - 860 pages
...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 j and when he is dead,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1800 - 330 pages
...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 word performance j and when, he is dead,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 454 pages
...age, as the eye furveys the fun through 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,... | |
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... genius through the shades of age, as the eye surveys the sun through artificial opacity. The great contention of criticism is to find the faults of the moderns and the beauties of the ancients. 
