...Not that whichmoves the artist or the writer most receives expression; thevacillating demands of mediocrity of every-day people must be satisfied... 
Various 「Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 1, March 1906」
...True, he did not prostrate himself before theidols of the conventional mob, nor did his sacrificial fires burn on thealtar of mediocrity and cretinism...
Various 「Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 4, June 1906」
...We have our own instincts, some of which take the name of genius when they attain a degree of might that towers over the plain of mediocrity...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Life of the Fly」
...We ought to bow to public opinion, whichrarely blames us for noticing mediocrity, but frequently for passing itover in silence...
Luigi Antonio Lanzi Thomas Roscoe 「The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. 1 (of 6)」
...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)」
...Tommaso Chiari, a pupil also of Maratta, and whose designs hesometimes executed, did not pass the bounds of mediocrity...
Luigi Antonio Lanzi Thomas Roscoe 「The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. 2 (of 6)」
...He painted in Rome and other places, but didnot pass the bounds of mediocrity...
Luigi Antonio Lanzi Thomas Roscoe 「The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. 2 (of 6)」
...He left some imitatorsin Naples, one of whom was Domenico Viola; but neither he, nor his otherscholars passed the bounds of mediocrity...
Luigi Antonio Lanzi Thomas Roscoe 「The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. 2 (of 6)」
...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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