 | Samuel Johnson - 1774 - عدد الصفحات: 374
...Time has fometimes co-operated with Chance , all perhaps are more willing to honour paft than prefent Excellence ; and the Mind contemplates Genius through the Shades of Age, as the Eye furveys the Sun through- artificial Opacity. The great Contention of Criticifm is to find the Faults... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1774 - عدد الصفحات: 374
...Time has fometimes co-operated with Chance i all perhaps are more willing to honour paft than prefe'nt Excellence ; and the Mind contemplates Genius through the Shades of Age, as the Eye furveys the Sun through artificial Opacity. The great Contention of Criticifm is to find the Faults... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1774 - عدد الصفحات: 412
...fometirr.es co-operated with Chance j :>,!! perhaps are more willing to honour paft than prefent Excellence j and the Mind contemplates Genius through the Shades of Age, as the Eyefurveys the Sun through artificial Opacity. The great Contention of Criticifm is to find the Faults... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - عدد الصفحات: 346
...bestowed by time. Antiquity, like every other quality that attracts the notice of mankind, has undoubtedly votaries that reverence it, not from reason, but from...more willing to honour past than present excellence j and the mind contemplates genius through the shades of age, as the eye surveys the sun through artificial... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - عدد الصفحات: 494
...bestowed by time. Antiquity, like every other quality that attracts the notice of mankind, has undoubtedly votaries that reverence it, not from reason, but from...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.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - عدد الصفحات: 594
...marked out for a sacrifice. Idler, vol. ^, p. 77. Antiquity, like every other quality' that atracts the notice of mankind, has votaries that reverence...surveys the sun through artificial opacity. Preface to Shakfpeare, p. 93. ADVERSITY. Adversity has ever been considered. as the state in which a man most... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - عدد الصفحات: 376
...bestowed by time. Antiquity, like every other quality that attracts the notice of mankind, has undoubtedly votaries that reverence it, not from reason, but from...mind contemplates genius through the shades of age, a*the eye surveys the sun through artificial opacity. The great contention of criticism is to find... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - عدد الصفحات: 394
...bestowed by time. Antiquity, like every other quality that attracts the notice of mankind, has undoubtedly votaries that reverence it, not from reason, but from...chance ; all perhaps are more willing to honour past thaji present excellence; and the mind contemplates genius through the shades of age, as the eye surveys... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - عدد الصفحات: 488
...bestowed by time. Antiquity, like every other quality that attracts the notice of mankind, has undoubtedly votaries that reverence it, not from reason, but from...sometimes cooperated with chance ; all perhaps are more wiling to honour past than present excellence ; and the mind contemplates genius through the shades... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - عدد الصفحات: 394
...by time. Antiquity, like every other quality that attracts the notice of mankind, luia undoubtedly votaries that reverence it, not from reason, but from...long preserved, without considering that time has some times co-operated with chance; all perhaps are more wilhng to honour past than present excellence;... | |
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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... 
