 | Meyer Howard Abrams - Literary Criticism - 1971 - 420 pages
...his own day and of all time. For 'nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manners can be known...therefore few only can judge how nearly they are copied.' a* Therefore it is Shakespeare's great excellence that his characters 'act and speak by the influence... | |
 | Jan Bakker, J. A. Verleun, J. v. d Vriesenaerde - American literature - 1987 - 248 pages
...the Preface to Shakespeare that 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 the... | |
 | Ian Michael - Education - 1987 - 652 pages
...analyses the following paragraph: 'Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representation of general nature. Particular manners can be known...of fanciful invention may delight awhile, by that novelsy of which the common satiesy of life sends us all in quest; but the pleasures of sudden wonder... | |
 | Michael J. Sidnell - Drama - 1991 - 298 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; but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 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 a-while, 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... | |
 | Martin Lammon - American poetry - 1996 - 304 pages
...please long but just representations of general nature. Particular manners can be known to few, and few only can judge how nearly they are copied. The...irregular combinations of fanciful invention may delight a while by that novelty, of which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest, but the pleasure... | |
 | Greg Clingham - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 290 pages
...and famous passage in the Preface: 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 know how nearly they are copied. The irregular combinations of fanciful invention may delight a-while,... | |
 | Terrington Calas, Steve Bachmann - Art - 2002 - 202 pages
...according to the criteria Dr. Johnson has set down for the classic, we can expect Mondrian to endure: "The irregular combinations of fanciful invention...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... | |
 | Steven Pinker - Psychology - 2003 - 532 pages
...that great intuitive psychologist: Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manners can be known...delight a-while, 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... | |
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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,... 
