| William Shakespeare - 1788 - 346 pages
...Particular manners can be known to few, and therefor-e few only can judge how nearly they are copied. The irregular combinations of fanciful invention may delight...sends us all in quest ; but the pleasures of sudden bonder are soon exhausted,- and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth. Shakspere is, above... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1803 - 494 pages
...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...the common satiety of life sends us all in quest; the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 376 pages
...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...the mind can only repose on the stability of truth. Shakespeare is, above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature ; the poet... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1806 - 394 pages
...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...which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest ; the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 488 pages
...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...least above all modern writers, the poet of nature ; the poet that holds, up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life. His characters are... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1809 - 394 pages
...invention may 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,...least above all modern writers, the poet of nature ; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life. His characters are... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1809 - 390 pages
...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...the common satiety of life sends us all in quest; the pleasures of sudden wonder are soonexhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1810 - 444 pages
...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...least above all modern writers, the poet of nature ; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life. His characters are... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 486 pages
...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...the mind can only repose on the stability of truth. Shakespeare is, above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature; the poet... | |
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