 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1872 - 786 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...vexations are communicable to all times and to all pinces in*1}- am natural, and therefore durable. The adventitious peen liarilies of personal habits... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1873 - 614 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 1 Machination, (mik'* i ni' shun),... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, William Alexander Clouston - 1875 - 346 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 tint, without any remains of... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1876 - 622 pages
...and, therefore, durable : the adventitious 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 former luster; but the discrimitations of true passion are the colors of nature : they pervade the whole mass,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1878 - 750 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...are only superficial dies, bright and pleasing for a kttle while, yet soon fading to a dim tinct, without any remains of former lustre; but the discriminations... | |
 | William Swinton - American literature - 1880 - 694 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 - 1882 - 996 pages
...diminution from the changes made by a century and a half, in manners or in words. As his personages act upou / time; and to all places ; they are natural, and therefore durable :, the adventitious peculiarities... | |
 | James Macaulay - Biography & Autobiography - 1884 - 164 pages
...derived. It is this which fills the plays of Shakespeare with practical axioms and domestic wisdom ..... As his personages act upon principles arising from...peculiarities of personal habits are only superficial dyes, bright and pleasing for a little while, yet soon fading to a dim tint, without any remains of... | |
 | William Swinton - American literature - 1886 - 690 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...places ; they are natural, and therefore durable. The adventi I. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.1 1564-1616. CHARACTERIZATION BY DR. JOHNSON.1 i. SHAKESPEARE is, above... | |
 | William Swinton - English literature - 1887 - 686 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... | |
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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... 
