 | William Swinton - English literature - 1897 - 682 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 orily superficial dyes, bright and pleasing for a little while, yet soon fading to a dim tinct, without... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1903 - 434 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... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1903 - 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...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... | |
 | 1904 - 390 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...forms, their pleasures and vexations are communicable at all times and to all places; they are natural, and therefore durable; the adventitious peculiarities... | |
 | Beverley Ellison Warner - Drama - 1906 - 328 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...dies, bright and pleasing for a little while, yet soon faded to a dim tint, without any remains of former lustre; and the discrimination of true passion are... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1908 - 254 pages
...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...tinct, without any remains of former lustre ; but the discriminatiQja&,of true passion a,re_Jthe_ colours jof natuje ; they pervade the whole mass, and"... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - American literature - 1910 - 812 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...forms, their pleasures and vexations are communicable at all times and to all places ; they are natural, and therefore durable ; the adventitious peculiarities... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 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... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 754 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...their pleasures and vexations are communicable to all tunes and to all places; they are natural, and therefore durable. The adventitious peculiarities of... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 752 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...their pleasures and vexations are communicable to all tunes and to f all places; they are natural, and therefore durable. The adven\ titious peculiarities... | |
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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... 
