 | 1893 - 688 pages
...there is the following reference to Shakespeare :— " Our inimitable Shakspeare is a stumbling block to the whole tribe of these rigid critics. Who would...rather read one of his plays, where there is not a tingle rule of the étage observed, than any production of a modern critic, where there is not one... | |
 | 1853 - 604 pages
...arts, which is what we call the sublime in writing. In the next place, our critics do not seem sensible that there is more beauty in the works of a great...art, than in those of a little genius who knows and observesthem. It is of these men of genius that Terence speaks, in opposition to the little artificial... | |
 | Spectator The - 1853 - 554 pages
...sometimes a greater judgment shown in deviating from the rules of art than in adhering to them; and 2dly, That there is more beauty in the works of a great genius who is ignorant of all the rules of art, than in the works of a little genius who not only knows but scrupulously observes... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 698 pages
...greater judgment shewn in deviating from the rules of art, than in adhering to them ; and, Secondly, That there is more beauty in the works of a great genius who is ignorant of all the rules of art, than in the works of a little genius, who not only knows, but scrupulously observes... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 726 pages
...greater judgment shewn in deviating from the rules of art, than in adhering to them ; and, Secondly, That there is more beauty in the works of a great genius who is ignorant of all the rules of art, than in the works of a little genius, who not only knows, but scrupulously observes... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 710 pages
...eater judgment shewn in deviating from the rules of art, than in adhering to them ; and, Secondly, That there is more beauty in the works of a great genius who is ignorant of all the rules of art, than in the works of a little genius, who not only knows, but serupulously observes... | |
 | 1855 - 518 pages
...arts, which is what we call the sublime in writing. In the next piece, our critics do not seem sensible that there is more beauty in the works of a great...those of a little genius who knows and observes them. It is of these men of genius that Terence speaks, in opposition to the little artiBcial cavillers of... | |
 | 1855 - 528 pages
...greater judgment shown in deviating from the rules of art than in adhering to them ; and, secondly, that there is more beauty in the works of a great genius, who is ignorant of all the rules of art, than in the works of a little genius, who not only knows but scrupulously observes... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 1090 pages
...eater judgment shewn in deviating from the rules of art, than in adhering to them ; and, Secondly, That there is more beauty in the works of a great genius who is ignorant of all the rules of art, than in the works of a little genius, who not only knows, but scrupulously observes... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1864 - 470 pages
...greater judgment shown in deviating from the rules of art than in adhering to them; and, secondly, that there is more beauty in the works of a great genius, who is ignorant of all the rules of art, than in the works of a little genius, who not only knows but scrupulously observes... | |
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... there is more beauty in the works of a great genius, who is ignorant of all the rules of art, than in the works of a little genius, who not only knows but scrupulously observes them. 
