 | William Melmoth - English prose literature - 1758 - 474 pages
...excellencies of elegant compofition. Thus the deference paid to the performances, of the great matters of antiquity, is fixed Upon juft and folid reafons...conformable to our juft and natural ideas of beauty. TH E oppofition, however, which fometimes divides the opinions of thofe whofe judgments may be fuppofed... | |
 | William Melmoth - English letters - 1758 - 478 pages
...to their authority ; it is bccaufe thofe rules are derived from works which have been diftinguifhed by the uninterrupted admiration of all the more improved...conformable to our juft and natural ideas of beauty. TH E oppofition, however, which fometimes divides the opinions of thofe whofe judgments may be fuppofed... | |
 | John Walter - 1785 - 258 pages
...to their authority ; it is becaufe thofe rules are derived from works that have been diftinguifhed by the uninterrupted admiration of all" the more improved...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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Upon juft and folid reafons : it is not becaufe Ariftotle and Horace have given us the rules of criticifm, that we fubmit to their authority; it is becaufe thofe rules are derived from works which have been diftinguimed by the uninterrupted admiration... 