When the excellence of a new composition can no longer be contested, and malice is compelled to give way to the unanimity of applause, there is yet this one expedient to be tried, by which the author may be degraded, though his work be reverenced ; and... the theatre. - Seite 73von clement scott - 1882Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Samuel Johnson - 1851 - 360 Seiten
...expedient to be tried—the charge of plagiarism. By this, the author may be degraded, though his work be reverenced; and the excellence which we cannot obscure...a distance as not to overpower our fainter lustre. Rambler, vol. 3. Resolution. Marshal Turenne, among the acknowledgments which he used to pay in conversation... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1853 - 336 Seiten
...tried — the charge of plagiarism. By this, the author may be degraded, though ii" \\ his work be reverenced ; and the excellence which we cannot obscure...a distance as not to overpower our fainter lustre. Rambler, vol. 3. Resolution. Marshal Turenne, among the acknowledgments which he used to pay in conversation... | |
| 1865 - 838 Seiten
...vol. ii. , p. 199. VOL. XII. — NO. XXIII. 2 be set at such a distance as not to overpower our own fainter lustre. This accusation is dangerous, because even when it is false it may sometimes be urged with probability."* Those who have utterly rejected the "parallels" of Mr. Laing... | |
| Cecilia MacGregor - 1874 - 370 Seiten
...PLACE, EATON SQUAEE ; AND 4, HENBIETTA STREET, COVENT GABDEN. c. bo. CLIMBING THE LADDER. PREFACE. LA "BRUYERE declares that we are come into the world too late to produce anything new. In the following chapters I lay no claim to originality, having simply strung together upon my own... | |
| William Mathews - 1881 - 358 Seiten
...there is yet this one expedient to be tried, by which the author may be degraded, though his work be reverenced; and the excellence which we cannot obscure...lustre. This accusation is dangerous, because, even while it is false, it may sometimes be urged with probability." Charges of this kind have been made... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 424 Seiten
...there is yet this one expedient to be tried, by Avhich the author may be degraded, though his work be reverenced; and the excellence which we cannot obscure,...that we are come into the world too late to produce any thing new, that nature and life are preoccupied, and that description and sentiment have been long... | |
| Lester Frank Ward - 1903 - 646 Seiten
...contribute anything absolutely new. Even in the seventeenth century, La Bruyere thought that he had come into the world too late to produce anything new, that nature and life were preoccupied, and that description and sentiment had been long exhausted. And yet, throughout the... | |
| Robert Kleuker - 1907 - 188 Seiten
...gür biefe Slnfiфt fü^rt er — unb bte§ ift ba§ einjige 3Ral — Sa Srutyère an: Bruyere [sic] declares, that we are come into the world too late to produce any thing new, that nature and life are preoccupied, and that description and sentiment have been long... | |
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