 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 428 pages
...much pleased with your ridicule of those shallow critics, whose judgment, though often right as far it goes, yet reaches only to. inferior beauties, and...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 430 pages
...critics, whose judgment, though often. right as far it goes, yet reaches only to inferior beauties, ami who, unable to comprehend the whole, judge only by...merit of extensive works. But there is another kind of critic still worse, who judg.es by narrow rules, and those too often false, and which, though they... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 762 pages
...29, 1759" To THE IDLER. "SIR, /<• j WAS mucii pleased with your ridicule of those shallow critics, whose judgement, though often right as far as it goes,...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... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 690 pages
...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... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 378 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 582 pages
...1759TO THE IDLER. SIR, 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 inferiour beauties, and who, unable to comprehend the whole, judge only by parts, and from thence determine... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 548 pages
...TO THE IDLER. SIR, I WAS much pleased with your ridicule of those shallow criticks, whose judgment, though often right as far as it goes, yet reaches...worse, who judges by narrow rules, and those too often raise, and which, though they should be true, and founded on nature, will lead him but a very little... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1824 - 324 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 482 pages
...TO THE IDLER. SIR, I WAS much pleased with your ridicule of those shallow criticks, whose judgment, though often right as !*/, far as it goes, yet reaches...founded on nature, will lead him but a very little way toward the just "^x" &'* estimation of the sublime beauties in works of genius ; for whatever part... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 482 pages
...THE IDLER. (V ' SIR, I WAS much pleased with your ridicule of those shallow criticks, whose judgment, though often right as far as it goes, yet reaches...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... | |
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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... 
