 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer, Alice Ebba Andrews - English literature - 1910 - 778 pages
...writers, at 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...numbers; or by the accidents of transient fashions or tern porary opinions: they are the genuine progeny of common humanity, such as the world will always... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 754 pages
...at 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...not modified by the customs of particular places, unpracticed by the rest of the world; by the peculiarities of studies or professions, which can operate... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 752 pages
...at least above all modern writers, — the poet ofjiature; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life. His characters...not modified by the customs of particular places, unpracticed by the rest of the world; by the peculiarities of studies or professions, which can operate... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 pages
...at 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...not modified by the customs of particular places, unpracticed by the rest of the world; by the peculiarities of studies or professions, which can operate... | |
 | Abraham Royer Brubacher, Dorothy Ermina Snyder - English language - 1912 - 410 pages
...writers, at 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...not modified by the customs of particular places, unpracticed by the rest of the world ; by the peculiarities of studies or professions, which can operate... | |
 | Université Laval - 1928 - 442 pages
...above writers, at least, above all modem writers, the poet of nature — that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life. His characters...peculiarities of studies or professions, which can operate upon but small numbers ; or by the accidents of transcient fashions or temporary opinions ; they are... | |
 | René Wellek - Literary Criticism - 1981 - 378 pages
...modified by the customs of particular places ... by the peculiarities of studies or professions . . . or by the accidents of transient fashions or temporary...opinions; they are the genuine progeny of common humanity . . . His persons act and speak by the influence of those general passions and principles by which... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1908 - 256 pages
...pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth. / I customs of particular places, unpractised by the rest...humanity, such as the world will always supply, and 1 observation will always find. His persons act and speak by the influence of those general passions... | |
 | Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - Literary Criticism - 1962 - 676 pages
...— at 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 not modified by the customs of particular places unpracticed by the rest of the world; by the peculiarities of studies or professions which can operate... | |
 | Yehudi A. Cohen - Social Science - 628 pages
...man. Thus, in a passage now notorious, Dr. Johnson saw Shakespeare's genius to lie in the fact that "his characters are not modified by the customs of...peculiarities of studies or professions, which can operate upon but small numbers; or by the accidents of transient fashions or temporary opinions." And Racine... | |
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His characters are not modified by the customs of particular places, unpractised by the rest of the world ; by the peculiarities of studies or professions, which can operate but upon small numbers ; or by the accidents of transient fashions or temporary... 
