 | Joseph Addison - 1875 - 584 pages
...the ancients in poetry, painting, oratory, history, architecture, and all the noble arts and sciences which depend more upon genius than experience, we exceed them as much in doggerel, humour, burlesque, and all the trivial arts of ridicule. We meet with more raillery among the moderns, but... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1875 - 576 pages
...the ancients in poetry, painting, oratory, history, architecture, and all the noble arts and sciences which depend more upon genius than experience, we exceed them as much in doggerel, humour, burlesque, and all the trivial arts of ridicule. We meet with more raillery among the moderns, but... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 pages
...the ancients in poetry, painting, oratory, history, architecture, and all the noble arts and sciences which depend more upon genius than experience, we exceed them as much in doggerel humour, burlesque, and all the trivial arts of ridicule. We meet with more raillery among the moderns, but... | |
 | Greek language - 1878 - 312 pages
...the ancients in poetry, painting, oratory, history, architecture and all the noble arts and sciences which depend more upon genius than experience, we exceed them as much in doggerel humour, burlesque, and all the trivial arts of ridicule. We meet with more raillery among the moderns, but... | |
 | William Wheeler - Spectator - 1892 - 200 pages
...the Ancients in Poetry, Painting, Oratory, History, Architecture, and all the noble Arts and Sciences which depend more upon Genius than Experience, we exceed them as much in Doggerel, Humour, Burlesque, and all the trivial Arts of Ridicule. We meet with more Raillery among the Moderns, but... | |
 | A. Meserole - English essays - 1896 - 450 pages
...the ancients in poetry, painting, oratory, history, architecture, and all the noble arts and sciences which depend more upon genius than experience, we exceed them as much in doggerel, humor, burlesque, and all the trivial arts of ridicule. We meet with more raillery among the moderns,... | |
 | George Atherton Aitken - 1898 - 420 pages
...the ancients in poetry, painting, oratory, history, architecture, and all the noble arts and sciences which depend more upon genius than experience, we exceed them as much in doggerel, humour, burlesque, and all the trivial arts of ridicule. We meet with more raillery among the moderns, but... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - American essays - 1900 - 644 pages
...Ancients, in poetry, painting, oratory, history, architecture, and all the noble arts and sciences which depend more upon genius than experience, we exceed them as much in doggerel, humor, burlesque, and all the trivial arts of ridicule.® As this fine observation stands at present... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - English literature - 1902 - 566 pages
...Ancients, in poetry, painting, oratory, history, architecture, and all the noble arts and sciences which depend more upon genius than experience, we exceed them as much in doggerel, humor, burlesque, and all the trivial arts of ridicule." As this fine observation stands at present... | |
 | Napoleon I (Emperor of the French) - Grande-Bretagne - 1905 - 400 pages
...the ancients in poetry, painting, oratory, history, architecture and all the noble arts and sciences which depend more upon genius than experience ; we exceed them as much in doggerel, humour, burlesque and all the trivial arts of ridicule." The future historian of British poetry proceeds to... | |
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And it is very remarkable, that notwithstanding we fall short at present of the ancients in poetry, painting, oratory, history, architecture, and all the noble arts and sciences which depend more upon genius than experience, we exceed them as much in... 
