 | Henry Parker - 1885 - 376 pages
...composition : — " I was much pleased with your ridicule of those shallow criticks, whose judgment, though often right as far as it goes, yet reaches...to comprehend the whole, judge only by parts, and thence determine the merits of extensive works. But there is another kind of critick still worse, who... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1887 - 330 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... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1887 - 332 pages
...THE IDLER. SIK — I was much pleased with your ridicule of those shallow Critics, whose judgment, though often right as far as it goes, yet reaches...to comprehend the whole, judge only by parts, and /C from thence determine the merit of extensive works. But there is another kind of Critic still worse,... | |
 | Theodore Child - 1892 - 192 pages
...only by parts, and thence determine the merits of extensive works. But there is another kind of critic still worse, who judges by narrow rules, and those...be true, and founded on Nature, will lead him but a little way toward the just estimation of the sublime beauties in a work of genius ; for whatever part... | |
 | Theodore Child - 1892 - 198 pages
...was much pleased," writes Sir Joshua, "with your ridicule of those shallow critics, whose judgment, though often right as far as it goes, yet reaches...to comprehend the whole, judge only by parts, and thence determine the merits of extensive works. But there is another kind of critic still worse, who... | |
 | William Peacock - 1903 - 408 pages
...1723-1792 ART CONNOISSEURS 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... | |
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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... 
