 | Joseph Addison - 1892 - 234 pages
...critic who has neither taste nor learning is this — that he seldom ventures to praise any passage in an author which has not been before received and applauded by the public." And the mere following of one's public is as emphatically condemned by a rising critic of our own day.... | |
 | William Basil Worsfold - Criticism - 1897 - 308 pages
...Critick, who has neither Taste nor Learning, is this, that he seldom ventures to praise any passage in an Author which has not been before received and applauded by the Public, and that his Criticism turns wholly upon little Faults and Errors. ... A true Critick ought to dwell rather upon... | |
 | Wells Hawks Skinner - English language - 1897 - 282 pages
...a critic who has neither taste nor learning is this, that he seldom ventures to praise any passage in an author which has not been before received and applauded by the public, and that his criticism turns wholly upon little faults and errors. This part of a critic is so very easy to succeed... | |
 | George Atherton Aitken - 1898 - 406 pages
...a critic who has neither taste nor learning, is this, that he seldom ventures to praise any passage in an author which has not been before received and applauded by the public, and that his criticism turns wholly upon little faults and errors. This part of a critic is so very easy to succeed... | |
 | Joseph Addison - English essays - 1907 - 142 pages
...critic who 30 has neither taste nor learning, is this, that he seldom ventures to praise any passage in an author which has not been before received and applauded by the public, and that his criticism turns wholly upon little faults and errors. This part of a critic is so very easy to succeed... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - American literature - 1910 - 812 pages
...Critick who has neither Taste nor Learning, is this, that he seldom ventures to praise any passage in'- an Author which has not been before received and applauded by the Public, and that his Criticism turns wholly upon little Faults and Errors. ... A true Critick ought to dwell rather upon... | |
 | Alice B. Macdonald - English language - 1911 - 630 pages
...a critic who has 'neither taste nor learning is this, that he seldom ventures to praise any passage in an author which has not been before received and applauded by the public, and that his criticism turns wholly upon little faults and errors. This part of a critic is so very easy to succeed... | |
 | Richard Pape Cowl - English poetry - 1914 - 346 pages
...has neither taste nor learning, is this, that he seldom Simtng! °r ventures to praise any passage in an author which has not been before received and applauded by the public, and that his criticism turns wholly upon little faults and errors. . . . A true critic ought to dwell rather upon... | |
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One great mark, by which you may discover a critic who has neither taste nor learning, is this, that he seldom ventures to praise any passage in an author •which has not been before received and applauded by the public, and that his criticism turns... 
