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«Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well; the chiefest part of which is to observe those excellencies which delight a reasonable reader»
Author: John Dryden
(Critic, Dramatist, Poet)
| About:
Criticism
| Keywords:
Aristotle, excellencies, instituted, instituting, judging
«The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.»
Author: John Keats
(Poet)
| Keywords:
disagreeable, evaporate, evaporates, excellencies, Excellency, intensities, intensity
«A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| About:
Criticism
| Keywords:
beauties, communicate, concealed, critic, dwell, excellencies, imperfections, observation
«The glorious uncertainty of the law was a thing well known and complained of, by all ignorant people, but all learned gentleman considered it as its greatest excellency»
Author: Richard Brinsley Sheridan
(Orator, Playwright, Politician)
| Keywords:
excellencies, Excellency, well known
«The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellencies, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations»
Author: Rene Descartes
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Scientist)
| About:
Mind
| Keywords:
aberration, aberrations, excellencies, likewise
«Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth, / That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment? / Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds; / Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he? / He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
dung, excellencies, Excellency, hypocrite, mount, mount up, night vision, triumphing, yea
«The excellency of hogs is fatness, of men virtue»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
excellencies, Excellency, fatness, hogs
«They only consult to cast him down from his excellency: they delight in lies: they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.»
«He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
excellencies
«I have the honor to be, your Excellency's most obedient humble servant»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
excellencies, Excellency, Humble servant, obedient
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