...Patient, persistent mediocrity is expressed bythe Red-eye's song, and only his nasal, petulant call-note,whang, suggests that he is not altogether satisfied with lifeas he finds it...
Frank M. Chapman 「What Bird is That?」
...Indeed, perfection in an inferior style may be reasonably preferredto mediocrity in the highest walks of art...
Joshua Reynolds 「Seven Discourses on Art」
...It is therefore incorrect to say, that thosetwo historians have commemorated many artists of mediocrity, merelybecause they were natives of Florence, an accusation alleged againstthem by foreigners...
Luigi Antonio Lanzi Thomas Roscoe 「The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. 1 (of 6)」
...It was a maxim with him that the merit of a painter does notconsist in giving to the world a number of works of mediocrity, but afew perfect ones; and hence his pictures are rare...
Luigi Antonio Lanzi Thomas Roscoe 「The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. 2 (of 6)」
...He was the scholar of Niccolò dellePomarance, for whom he worked much with little reward; and from hisexample he learnt to avail himself of the labour of others, and tocontent himself with mediocrity...
Luigi Antonio Lanzi Thomas Roscoe 「The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. 2 (of 6)」
...It relieves thehighest of their burden, so that mediocrity may be twice blessed,and it makes us a people by luring us to a certain kind of Life...
Anthony M. Ludovici 「Nietzsche and Art」
...Nothing indeed can be more interesting thanto note the touches, the substitution of which measured the wholedistance between mediocrity and excellence...
Alfred, Lord Tennyson 「The Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson」
...On a single word, on a subtlecollocation, on a slight touch depend often his finest effects: “the littleless” reduces him to mediocrity, “the little more” and he is with the masters...
Alfred, Lord Tennyson 「The Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson」
...If any judgment could be hazarded of the quality of the country, at the distance the sloop was at, it might be supposed, from the beauty of the lower head-land, to be somewhat above mediocrity...
David Collins 「An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Vol. 2」
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