 | William Melmoth - English letters - 1769 - 476 pages
...fubmit to their authority, it is becaufe thofe rules are derived from works which have been diftinguimed by the uninterrupted admiration of all the more improved...conformable to our juft and natural ideas of beauty. THE oppofition, however, which fometimes divides the opinions of thofe whofe judgments may be fuppofed... | |
 | John Walter - 1785 - 258 pages
...criticifm . that we fubmit to their authority ; it is becaufe thofe rules are derived from works that have been diftinguifhed by the uninterrupted admiration...part of mankind, from their earlieft appearance down ta this prefent hour. For whatever, through a long feries of ages, has been univerfally efteemed beautiful,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1790 - 1058 pages
...to their authority ; it is bccaule thofe rules arc derived from works which have been dillinguifhed by the uninterrupted admiration of all the more improved...mankind, from their earlieft appearance down to this prefcnt hour. For whatever, through a long feries of ages, has been univerfally eíieemed ai beautiful,... | |
 | William Melmoth - English letters - 1815 - 314 pages
...to their authority ; it is because those rules are derived from works which have been distinguished by the uninterrupted admiration of all the more improved part of mankind, from their earliest appearance down to this present hour. For whatever, through a long series of ages, has been... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 336 pages
...to their authority; it is because those rules are derived from works which have been distillgnished by the uninterrupted admiration of all the more improved part of mankind, from their earliest appearance down to this present hour. For whatever, through a long series of ages, has been... | |
 | Arthur O. Lovejoy - Philosophy - 1936 - 404 pages
...their authority, but because those rules have been derived from works that have been distinguished by the uninterrupted admiration of all the more improved part of mankind from their earliest appearance to the present hour. For whatsoever, through long ages, has been universally esteemed... | |
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Horace have given us the rules of criticism, that we submit to their authority ; it is because those rules are derived from works which have been distinguished by the uninterrupted admiration of all the more improved part of mankind, from their earliest... 