 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 482 Seiten
...SIR, I WAS much pleased with your ridicule of those shallow criticks, whose judgment, though oftejn right as far as it goes, yet reaches only to inferior...founded on nature, will lead him but a very little way toward the just estimation of the sublime beauties in works of genius ; for whatever part of an art... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 702 Seiten
...shallow criticks, whose judgment, though often right so far as it goes, yet reaches only to inferiour beauties, and who, unable to comprehend the whole,...founded on nature, will lead him but a very little way toward the just estimation of the sublime beauties in works of genius ; for whatever part of an art... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 510 Seiten
...THE IDLKR. SIR — I was much pleased with your ridicule of those shallow critics, whose judgment, though often right as far as it goes, yet reaches...merit of extensive works. But there is another kind of critic still worse, who judges by narrow rules, and those too often false, and which, though they should... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1835 - 514 Seiten
...1759. TO THE IDLER. SIR, I WAS much pleased with your ridicule of those shallowCritics, whose judgment, though often right as far as it goes, yet reaches...merit of extensive works. But there is another kind of Critic still worse, who judges by narrow rules, and those too often false, and which though they should... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1835 - 536 Seiten
...TO THE IDLER. SIR, I WAS much pleased with your ridicule of those shallow Critics, whose judgment, though often right as far as it goes, yet reaches...merit of extensive works. But there is another kind of Critic still worse, who judges by narrow rules, and those too often false, and which though they should... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1846 - 506 Seiten
...SIR, TO THE IDLER. I WAS much pleased with your ridicule of those shallow Critics, whose judgment, though often right as far as it goes, yet reaches only to inferior beauties; and who, unahle to comprehend the whole, judge only by parts, and from thence determine the merit of extensive... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1852 - 512 Seiten
...TO THE IDLER. SIR, I WAS much pleased with your ridicule of those shallow Critics, whose judgment, though often right as far as it goes, yet reaches...merit of extensive works. But there is another kind of Critic still worse, who judges by narrow rules, and those too often false, and which though they should... | |
 | English authors - 1876 - 504 Seiten
...4. The Art Critic. I WAS much pleased with your ridicule of those shallow critics, whose judgment, though often right as far as it goes, yet reaches...merit of extensive works. But there is another kind of critic still worse, who judges by narrow rules, and those too often false, and which, though they should... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1882 - 322 Seiten
...callidus — Hou.] SIR, I WAS much pleased with your ridicule of those shallow Critics, whose judgment, though often right as far as it goes, yet reaches...merit of extensive works. But there is another kind of Critic still worse, who judges by narrow rules, and those too often false, and which, though they should... | |
 | AUSTIN DOBSON - 1883 - 590 Seiten
...callidus S1R, —HOR.] I WAS much pleased with your ridicule of those shallow Critics, whose judgment, though often right as far as it goes, yet reaches...merit of extensive works. But there is another kind of Critic still worse, who judges by narrow rules, and those too often false, and which, though they should... | |
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I was much pleased with your ridicule of those shallow criticks, whose judgment, though often right as far as it goes, yet reaches only to inferior beauties, and who, unable to comprehend the whole, judge only by parts, and from thence determine the merit... 
