 | 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 bf true passion are the colours of nature; they pervade the whole mass, and can only... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 502 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... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 476 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...adventitious peculiarities of personal habits are ouly superficial dies, bright and pleasing for a little while, yet soon fading to a dim tinct, without... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Actors - 1825 - 1010 pages
...half, in manners or in words. As his personages act upon principles arising from genuine passion, »ery feasts; and wip'd our eyes Of drops, that sacred pity...wanting may be ministred. OH. I i.- it. but forbear »o.>n fading to a dim tinct, without any remains of former lustre; and the discrimination of trne... | |
 | Literary gems - 1826 - 718 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 - 1832 - 364 pages
...diminution from the changes made by a century and a half, in manners or in words. As his personages act on principles arising from genuine passion, very little...tinct, without any remains of former lustre ; but the discriminations of true passion are the colors of nature ; they pervade the whole mass, and can only... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1833 - 1140 pages
...scenes has suffered little diminution from the changes made by a century and a half, in manners or in As sure, therefore durable: the adventitious peculiariti personal habits, are only superficial dies, bi and... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 402 pages
...conclusion of which is alike excellent for its imagery and sublimity : — " As the personages of Shakspeare act upon principles arising from genuine passion,...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... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1835 - 460 pages
...conclusion of which is alike excellent for its imagery and sublimity : — " As the personages of Shakspeare act upon principles arising from genuine passion,...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... | |
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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... 
