 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 420 pages
...scenes has suffered little diminution from the changes made by a century and a half, in manners or in words. As his personages act upon principles arising...peculiarities of personal habits are only superficial dyes, bright and pleasing for a little while, yet soon fading to a dim tinct, without any remains of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 450 pages
...scenes has suffered little diminution from the changes made by a century and a half, in manners or in words. As his personages act upon principles arising...peculiarities of personal habits are only superficial dyes, bright and pleasing for a little while, yet soon fading to a dim tinct, without any remains of... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 676 pages
...scenes has suffered little diminution from the changes made by a century and a half, in manners or in words- As his personages act upon principles arising...a dim tinct, without any remains of former lustre ; and the discrimination of true passion are the colours of nature ; they pervade the whole mass, and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Theater - 1821 - 668 pages
...changes made by a century and a half, in manners or in words. As his personages act uponprin* ciples arising from genuine passion, very little modified...pleasures and vexations are communicable to all times ana to all places ; they are natural* and therefore durable; the adventitious peculiarities of personal... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 350 pages
...scenes has suffered little diminution from the changes made by a century and a half, in manners or in words. As his personages act upon principles arising...tinct, without any remains of former lustre ; but the discriminations of true passion are the colours of nature ; they pervade the whole mass, and can only... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 484 pages
...scenes has suffered little diminution from the changes made by a century and a half, in manners or in words. As his personages act upon principles arising...peculiarities of personal habits are only superficial dyes, bright and pleasing for a little while, yet soon fading to a dim tinct, without any remains of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1823 - 432 pages
...scenes has suffered little diminution from the changes made by a century and a half, in manners or in words. /As his personages act upon principles arising...all places; they are natural, and therefore durable \f the adventitious peculiarities of personal habits are only superficial dyes, bright and pleasing... | |
 | H. Nolte - 1823 - 646 pages
...personages a.-t upon principles arising from genuine passion, very l.ttle modified by particular form*, their pleasures and vexations are communicable to...superficial dies, bright and pleasing for a little whi¡e, yel soon faded to a dim tinct, without any remains if former lustre; but the discriminations... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 526 pages
...scenes has suffered little diminution from the changes made by a century and a half, in manners or in words. As his personages act upon principles arising...little modified by particular forms, their pleasures aftd vexations are communicable to all times and to all places ; they are natural, and therefore durable;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 pages
...scenes has suffered little diminution from the changes made by -a century and a half, in manners or in words. As his personages act upon principles arising...tinct, without any remains of former lustre; but the discriminations of true passion are the colours of nature; they pervade the whole mass, and can only... | |
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The force of his comic scenes has suffered little diminution from the changes made by a century and a half, in manners or in words. As his personages act upon principles arising from genuine passion, very little modified by particular forms, their pleasures... 
