 becaufe human judgment, though it be gradually gaining upon certainty, never becomes infallible, and approbation, though long continued, may yet be only the approbation of prejudice or  The Monthly Magazine - Page 6001800Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 488 pages
...they devolved from one generation to another, have received new honours at every transmisButbecause human judgment, though it be gradually gaining upon...continued, may yet be only the approbation of prejudice or fashion ; it is proper to inquire, by what peculiarities of excellence Shaksfieare has gained and kept... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 444 pages
...devolved from one generation to another, have received new honours at every transmission. But because human judgment, though it be gradually gaining upon...continued, may yet be only the approbation of prejudice or fashion ; it is proper to inquire, by what peculiarities of excellence Shakspeare has gained and kept... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1811 - 510 pages
...desire of pleasure and are therefore praised only as pleasure is obDR.JOHNSON'S PREFACE. But because human judgment, though it be gradually gaining upon...continued, may yet be only the approbation of prejudice or fashion ; it is proper to inquire, by what peculiarities of excellence Shakspeare has gained and kept... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1814 - 470 pages
...undertaken the revision, may now begin to assume the dignity of an anciejit, and claim the But because human judgment, though it be gradually gaining upon...continued, may yet be only the approbation of prejudice or fashion ; it is proper to inquire, by what peculiarities of excellence Shakepeare has gained and kept... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 514 pages
...devolved from one generation to another, have received new honours at every transmission. But because human judgment, though it be gradually gaining upon...continued, may yet be only the approbation of prejudice or fashion; it is proper to inquire, by what peculiarities of excellence Shakespeare has gained and kept... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 492 pages
...devolved from one generation to another, have received new honours at every transmission. But because human judgment, though it be gradually gaining upon...continued, may yet be only the approbation of prejudice or fashion; it is proper to inquire, by what peculiarities of excellence Shakespeare has gained and kept... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 1082 pages
...the pedant in К who, when he offered his house to ried a brick in his pocket as a spe< But because human judgment, though it be gradually gaining upon...approbation, though long continued, may yet be only (•'. It will not easily be imagined he Shakespeare excels in accommod sentiments to real life, but... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1817 - 350 pages
...sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth. But because human judgment, though it be gradually gaining upon...continued, may yet be only the approbation of prejudice or fashion ; it is proper to inquire, by what peculiarities of excellence Shakespeare has gained and kept... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 450 pages
...devolved from one generation to another, have received new honours at every transmission. But because human judgment, though it be gradually gaining upon...continued, may yet be only the approbation of prejudice or fashion ; it is proper to inquire, by what peculiarities of excellence Shakespeare has gained and kept... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 676 pages
...sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth. But because human judgment, though it be gradually gaining upon...continued, may yet be only the approbation of prejudice or fashion; it is proper to in-. quire, by what peculiarities of excellence Shakspeare has gained and... | |
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