 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 350 pages
...kept the favour of his countrymen. Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manners can be known...delight awhile, by that novelty, of which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest ; but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1823 - 432 pages
.../'Nothing can please many, and please long, but ] just representations of general nature. Particular f manners can be known to few, and therefore few only...delight awhile, by that novelty of which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest; but the pleaswe^of^udden_wonder are soon exhausted, and y the... | |
 | H. Nolte - 1823 - 646 pages
...kept the favour of his countrymen. Nothing can please many and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manners can be known to few, and therefore frw only can judge how nearly they are copied. The irregular combinations of fanciful in*) Johnson's... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1824 - 794 pages
...kept the favour of his countrymen. Nothing can please many and please long, but just representations took from English chronicles and English ballads;...some of Plutarch's lives into plays, when they hud b satiety of life sends us all in quest; but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and (he... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 pages
...kept the favour of his countrymen. Nothiug can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manners can be known...delight awhile, by that novelty of which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest; but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...kept the favour of his countrymen. Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manners can be known...delight awhile, by that novelty of which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest ; the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 750 pages
...by what peculiarities of excellence Shakspeare has gained and kept the favour of his countrymen. arc copied. The irregular combinations of fanciful invention...delight awhile, by that novelty of which the common satiety of life send» us all in quest; but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1832 - 364 pages
...kept the favor of his countrymen. Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manners can be known...delight awhile, by that novelty of which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest ; the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1833 - 1140 pages
...kept the favour of his countrymen. Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations Fleischer satiety of life sends us all in quest; but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the... | |
 | Garrick Club, Cambridge - Actors - 1836 - 360 pages
...representations of general nature * * * The irregular • '* Gods ! o'er those boards shall Folly rear her head, combinations of fanciful invention may delight awhile, by that novelty of which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest : but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and... | |
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Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manners can be known to few, and therefore few only can judge how nearly they are copied. The irregular combinations of fanciful invention may delight awhile,... 
