... often excellent, and, even when grossly and provokingly unjust, well deserve to be studied. For, however erroneous they may be, they are never silly. They are the judgments of a mind trammelled by prejudice and deficient in sensibility, but vigorous... Harper's New Monthly Magazine - Página 4961857Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
| 1857 - 476 páginas
...prejudice and deficient in sensibility, but vigorous and acute. They therefore generally contain a portion of valuable truth which deserves to be separated...which much of what is called criticism in our time hua no pretensions. Savage's Life Johnson reprinted nearly as it had appeared in 1744. Whoever; after... | |
| Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1866 - 730 páginas
...prejudice and deficient in sensibility, but vigorous and acute. They therefore generally contain a portion of valuable truth which deserves to be separated...Life Johnson reprinted nearly as it had appeared in 1 744. Whoever, after reading that life, will turn to the other lives will be struck by the difference... | |
| George Otto Trevelyan - 1876 - 652 páginas
...sentence about Dr. Johnson's literary verdicts might perhaps be applied to his own criticisms on art : " At the very worst, they mean something ; a praise...called criticism in our time has no pretensions." * Macaulay may not have been a reliable guide in the regions of high art, but there was one department... | |
| George Otto Trevelyan - 1876 - 422 páginas
...sentence about Dr. Johnson's literary verdicts might perhaps be applied to his own criticisms on art : " At the very worst, they mean something ; a praise to which much of what is called criticism in onr time has no pretensions."* Hacaulay may not have been a reliable gnide in the regions of high art,... | |
| George Otto Trevelyan - 1876 - 500 páginas
...sentence about Dr. Johnson's literary verdicts might perhaps be apulied to his own criticisms on art: " At the very worst, they mean something; a praise to which much of what is called criticism iu our time has no pretensions." * Macaulay may not have been a reliable guide in the regions of high... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 582 páginas
...prejudice and deficient in sensibility, but vigorous and acute. They therefore generally contain a portion of valuable truth which deserves to be separated...is called criticism in our time has no pretensions. . . . Among the lives the best are perhaps those of Cowlev, Uryden, and 1'ope. The very worst is, beyond... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 576 páginas
...prejudice and deficient in sensibility, but vigorous and acute. They therefore generally contain a spin it, weave it ; that in place of idle litter,...covered. But above all, where thou findest Ignorance, critieism in our time has no pretensions. . . . Among the lives the best are perhaps those of Cowley,... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 514 páginas
...prejudice and deficient in sensibility, but vigorous and acute. They therefore generally contain a portion of valuable truth which deserves to be separated...had appeared in 1744. Whoever, after reading that lite, will turn to the other lives will be struck by the difference of style. Since Johnson had been... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - 846 páginas
...prejudice and deficient in sensibility, but vigorous and acute. They therefore generally contain a portion of valuable truth which deserves to be separated...which much of what is called criticism in our time lias no pretensions. Savage's Life Johnson reprinted nearly as it had appeared in 1744. Whoever, after... | |
| Eugen Kölbing, Johannes Hoops, Reinald Hoops - 1881 - 536 páginas
...firmness, wisdom, and humanity. Mac. Johns. 103. At the very worst, they (Johnson's Lives of the Poets) mean something, a praise to which much of what is called criticism in our time has no pretensions. Mac. Johns. 157. Dieses den Zeitpunkt fixirende at findet eine besondere, nicht bloss temporale Verwendung... | |
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