 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 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... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 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... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 754 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... | |
 | Richard Pape Cowl - 1914 - 346 pages
...please long, but just genera?"5 °f rePresentations of general nature. Particular manners can nature. be known to few, and therefore few only can judge...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... | |
 | Hans Meier - 1916 - 124 pages
...chaSe.68) Eine Anspielung auf Somerville. Nothing can please many, and please long, bat just representation of general nature. Particular manners can be known...therefore, few only can judge how nearly they are copied.69) Bemerkenswert ist Johnsons Ansicht über die Liebe als Stoff einer Dichtung. Wenn er ihr... | |
 | Norman Foerster - 1966 - 244 pages
...Republic: "Nothing can please many and please long, but just representations of human nature. . . . The irregular 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 the... | |
 | John Middleton Murry - 1922 - 272 pages
...Dr Johnson said : — ' Nothing can please many and please long, but just representations of human nature. Particular manners can be known to few, and...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... | |
 | 1909 - 498 pages
...Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manner, can be known to few, and therefore few only can judge...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... | |
 | Meyer Howard Abrams - 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 - 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... | |
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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,... 
