 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
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer, Alice Ebba Andrews - 1910 - 778 pages
...devolved from one generation to another, have received new honours at every transmission. But because fashion, it is proper to inquire by what peculiarities of excellence Shakespeare has gained and kept... | |
 | William Caxton, Jean Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, Francis Bacon, Edmund Spenser, Sir Walter Raleigh, Isaac Newton, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Wordsworth, Walt Whitman - 1910 - 458 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... | |
 | 1910 - 482 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... | |
 | 1910 - 468 pages
...devolved from one generation to another, have received new honours at every transmission. But because human judgment, though it be gradually gaining upon...and approbation, though long continued, may yet be onLv the approbation of prejudice or fashion; it is proper to inquire, by what peculiarities of excellence... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 754 pages
...devolved from one generation to another, have received new honors 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... | |
 | Oscar George Sonneck - 1917 - 746 pages
...same passage he denies that the collective estimate can ever be more than relatively final, because "human judgment, though it be gradually gaining upon certainty, never becomes infallible." This, however, is to deprive the word 'certainty' of its meaning as generally understood, and to question... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1908 - 256 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... | |
 | Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - 1962 - 676 pages
...devolved from one generation to another, have received new honors 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... | |
 | Ronald D. Gray - 1967 - 304 pages
...least a measure of general agreement. To quote Johnson, with a small adaptation,one last time: '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 [Goethe] has gained and kept... | |
 | Frank Brady, William Wimsatt - 1978 - 655 pages
...devolved from one generation to another, have received new honors 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 1. The Greek philosopher Pythagoras discovered that the principal intervals of the musical... | |
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