Both were, as artists, little more than mediocrities with almost no genuine feeling for what makes painting a great art.
In that age, when the great monarchs of the eighteenth century had passed, or were passing, away, Francis II stood somewhat low among the mediocrities on whom fell the strokes of destiny.
I have always failed to see the justice of this arrangement; to me it seems merely the way to foster mediocritiesand suppress originality.
So eminent a poet and so handsome a young man was insupportable among a crowd of literary mediocrities and middle-aged gallants.
In one word, the paradise of mediocritiescame into being.
He could not be contented with the paradise of mediocritiesdescribed by Balbi.
Mediocrities and respectabilities of every description--that is to say, the majority of the influential classes--were delighted with their method.
As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority, it is impossible for them to elect an intelligent government.
After that you have the army of mediocritiesfollowed by the multitude of fools.
It is difficult to fancy how the mediocrities reconcile such sayings with their proverbs.
The incongruity is speaking; and I imagine it must engender among the mediocrities a very peculiar attitude, towards the nobler and showier sides of national life.
There are many mediocrities more aggressive and more mischievous than that of Pierre Grassou, who is, moreover, anonymously benevolent and truly obliging.
Pity sets up mediocritiesas envy pulls down great talents, and in equal numbers.
Machine for bringing children into the world Mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority Moments of friendly silence Muscles of their faces have never learned the motions of laughter "My God!
We would also earnestly beg 'Mr. Winter' not to write foolish prefaces about unappreciative critics; for it is only mediocrities and old maids who consider it a grievance to be misunderstood.
The book will succeed--it is onlymediocrities who indulge in failure--and the public will tumble over one another in their mad rush to be dosed with epigrams of genius.
All his most intimates are unintellectualmediocrities or tricksters.
If you collect a crowd of mediocrities together, sooner or later they will fall under the dominion of a stronger head.
These vermin invariably belong to a class of industrious mediocrities who have been born with a mental kink, and their treachery, falsehood, and cowardice are incurable.
The system now pursued directly defeats that end; it has crated the most thorough mediocrities that any government hostile to superiority could desire.
The incongruity is speaking; and I imagine it must engender among the mediocrities a very peculiar attitude towards the nobler and showier sides of national life.
And oh, what hopeless efforts of mediocrities and inferiorities, believing in themselves as superiorities, and stumbling on through limping disappointments to prostrate failure!
It is an historical fact that when great men differ mediocrities come into their kingdoms, and Portland as Prime Minister was a figurehead.
As for the mediocrities for whose benefit Haydn is held to have "stereotyped" the form, what could they learn from him?
Yet the man of many such mediocrities could not keep the pot boiling.
His three mediocrities fell so short of one talent that he was sometimes impransus.
It has often been maintained that the qualities of higher forms of man are exhausted in a few generations, while the mass of mediocrities continually produce new genius.
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