 | John Ruskin - 1880 - 442 страница
...tiresome, they ask somebody else to play, or sing, or what not, but they don't criticise. For the rest, a bad critic is probably the most mischievous person in the world (Swift's Goddess of Criticism in the " Tale of a Tub " seems what need be represented, on that subject... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1880 - 546 страница
...If all this is true, or can ever be true, of Criticism, it is rather irritating to find Mr. Ruskin, himself one of the noblest exemplifications of Criticism...and all, into the right scale. But surely, with Mr. Ruskin's own great fame before our miuds — a fame only dimmed when his common-sense has fallen inefficient,... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1880 - 542 страница
...which they germinated. noblest exemplifications of Criticism thus splendidly aggrandised, groaning oat in the evening of his day that Criticism is as impertinent...helpless and unhappy." So far as this grief of Mr. Buskin results from his craft being ill-appreciated, let us endeavour to remove its cause by throwing... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1880 - 372 страница
...tiresome, they ask somebody else to play, or sing, or what not, but they don't criticise. For the rest, a bad critic is probably the most mischievous person in the world (Swift's Goddess of Criticism in the " Tale of a Tub " seems what need be represented, on that subject... | |
 | 1881 - 504 страница
...astonished ; if people become tiresome they ask somebody else to play or sing, but they do not criticise. A bad critic is probably the most mischievous person in the world . . . and a good one the nost helpless and unhappy ; the more he knows :ho less he is trusted, and... | |
 | John Ruskin, William Sloane Kennedy - 1886 - 600 страница
...tiresome, they ask somebody else to play, or sing, or what not ; but they don't criticise. For the rest, a bad critic is probably the most mischievous person in the world, and a good one the most helpless and unhappy: the more he knows, the less he is trusted, and it is... | |
 | 1890 - 1056 страница
...literature, barely even its judges and police"; and he reminds them of Mr. Ruskin's saying that ' ' a bad critic is probably the most mischievous person in the world," though a sense of their relative proportion to the whole of life, would perhaps acquit the worst of... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1891 - 444 страница
...tiresome, they ask somebody else to play, or sing, or what not, but they don't criticise. For the rest, a bad critic is probably the most mischievous person in the world (Swift's Goddess of Criticism in the " Tale of a Tub :1 seems what need be represented, on that subject... | |
 | William Dean Howells - 1891 - 212 страница
...literature, barely even its judges and police ; " and he reminds them of Mr. Ruskin's saying that " a bad critic is probably the most mischievous person in the world," though a sense of their relative proportion to the whole of life would perhaps acquit the worst among... | |
 | William Henry Hills - 1891 - 202 страница
...criticised in a manner which reflects dishonor on the critic only. But, though I think with Mr. Ruskin that "a bad critic is probably the most mischievous person in the world," not even against the least honorable of them all do I cherish a particle of rancor. — Archdeacon... | |
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... drawing-room. In a kindly and well-bred company, if anybody tries to please them, they try to be pleased ; if anybody tries to astonish them, they have the courtesy to be astonished ; if people become tiresome, they ask somebody else to play, or sing,... 
