The British Essayists With Prefaces Historical And Biographical volume 15
The British Essayists With Prefaces Historical And Biographical volume 15
Alexander Chalmers
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They judge of them by what others have written* . And not by any notions they have of the authors themselves. The words unity, action, sentiment, . And diction, pronounced with an air of authority, give them a figure among unlearned readers, whp j, '2 112 SPECTATOR. K" 592. are apt to believe they are very deep because they are unintelligible. The ancient critics are full of the praises of their contemporaries; they discover beauties which escaped the observation of the vul- gar, and very often... find out reasons for palliating and excusing such little slips and oversights as were committed in the writings of eminent authors. On the contrary, most of the smatterers in criticism, who appear among us, make it their business to vilify and depreciate every new production that gains applause, to decry imaginary blemishes, and to prove, by far-fetched arguments, that what pass for beauties in any celebrated piece are faults and errors. In short, the writings of these critics, com- pared with those of the ancients, are like the works of the sophists compared with those of the old phi* losophers.
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