 ... pride, and envy. Hence it is that they are very apt to measure merit by the century, to love dead authors better than living ones, and to love them the better the longer they have been dead.  The World .. - Página 11831753Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1756 - 724 páginas
...are, alas ! but men ; and,, like other men, fubjecl to the weakneiTes of human nature, though perhap» in a lefs degree : but it is however certain, that...dead. The Auguftan age is therefore their favourite агга, being at Icaft 1700 years diftant from the prefect. That Emperor wa» not only a judge of... | |
 | 1776 - 306 páginas
...ftrangers to the pallions of jealoufy , pride, and envy. Hence it is that they are very apt to meaftire merit by the century, to love dead authors better...from the prefent. That Emperor was not only a judge cf wit, but, for an emperor, a tolerable performer too ; and Mxcenas, his firft minifter, was both... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1779 - 490 páginas
...paffions of jealoufy, pride^ and envy. Hence it is that they are 5 very MISCELLANEOUS PIECES. XLV. 31$ very apt to meafure merit by the century, to love...have been dead. The Auguftan age is therefore their favorite a»ra, being at leaft feventeen hundred years diftant from the prefent. That emperor was not... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1779 - 490 páginas
...Hence it is that they are 5 MISCELLANEOUS PIECES. XLV. ¿tç very apt to meafure merit by thecemury, to love dead authors better than living ones, and...have been dead. The Auguftan age is therefore their favorite era, being at leaSt feventeen hundred years diStant from the pre. knt. That emperor was not... | |
 | 1786 - 636 páginas
...and envy. Hcnc« it is that tlicy arc very apt to meafure merit by the century, to love dead author» better than living ones, and to love them the better, the longer they have been | dead. The Augultan age is therefore i their favourite aera, being at leaft fevcn11 teen hundred years diluant... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 322 páginas
...strangers to the passions of jealousy, pride; and envy. Hence it is that they are very apt to measure merit by the century, to love dead authors better...them the better, the longer they' have been dead. The Augustan age is therefore their favourite sera, being at least seventeen hundred years distant from... | |
 | 1803 - 332 páginas
...strangers. to the passions of jealousy, pride, and envy. Hence it is, that they are very apt to measure merit .by the century, to love dead authors better...them the better the longer they have been dead. The Augustan age is therefore their favourite sra, being at least seventeen hundred. years distant from... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 314 páginas
...is therefore their favourite iera, being at least seventeen hundred years distant from the present. That emperor was not only a judge of wit, but, for...emperor, a tolerable performer too ; and Maecenas, hi* first minister, was both a patron and a poet : he not only encouraged and protected, but ted and... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 312 páginas
...strangers to the passions of jealousy, pride, and envy. Hence it is that they are very apt to measure merit by the century, to love dead authors better...them the better, the longer they have been dead. The Augustan age is therefore their favourite aera, being at least seventeen hundred years distant from... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 318 páginas
...is therefore their favourite sera, being at least seventeen hundred years distant from the present. That emperor was not only a judge of wit, but, for...emperor, a tolerable performer too ; and Maecenas, his first minister, was both a patron and a poet : he not only encouraged and protected, but fed and fattened... | |
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