 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 - 1973 - 492 pages
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 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - 600 pages
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 | 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1979 - 138 pages
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 | Michael J. Sidnell - 1991 - 298 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... | |
 | Charles H. Hinnant - 1994 - 276 pages
...there is always in Johnson a qualifying insistence that "approbation" is never absolutely certain, for "approbation, though long continued, may yet be only the approbation of prejudice or fashion" (Shakespeare, VII: 61). Indeed, the notion of the consensus gentium can actually mislead the... | |
 | William Bowman Piper - 1997 - 212 pages
...the common sense of literature was never altogether firm: "Human judgment," he writes in the preface, "though it be gradually gaining upon certainty, never...continued, may yet be only the approbation of prejudice or fashion." We may recall further certain facts immediately pertinent to literary common sense that Johnson... | |
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