 Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manners can be known to few, and therefore few only can judge how nearly they are copied. The irregular combinations of fanciful invention may delight awhile,...  The Harvard Classics - Page 2201909Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1765 - 80 pages
...Nothing can pleafc many, and pleafe long, but juft reprefentations of general nature. Particular manners can be known to few, and therefore few only can judge...delight a-while, by that novelty of which the common fatiety of life fends us all in queft ; but the pleafures of fudden wonder are foon exhaufted, and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1768 - 676 pages
...Nothing can pleafe many, and pleafe long, but juft reprefcntations of general nature. Particular manners can be known to few, and therefore few only can judge...delight a-while, by that novelty of which the common fatiety of life fends us all in queft ; but the pleafures of fudden wonder are foon exhaufted, and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1773 - 554 pages
...reprefentations of general nature. Particula. manners can be known to few, and therefore few only canjudge how nearly they are copied. The irregular combinations...delight awhile, by that novelty of which the common fatiety of life fends us all in queft •, but the pleafures of fudden wonder are foon exhaufted, and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 374 pages
...Nothing can pleafc many, and* pleafe long, but juft Reprefentations of general Nature. Particular Manners can be known to few, and therefore few only can judge...by that Novelty of which the common Satiety of Life fends us all in queft ; but the Pleafures of fudden Wonder are foon exhanfted, and the Mind can only... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 500 pages
...Nothing can pieafe many, and pleafe long, but juft reprefcntaiions of general nature. Particular manners can be known to few, and therefore few only can judge...delight awhile, by that novelty of which the common fatiety of life fends us all in queft; but the pleafures of iudden wonder are foon exhaufted, and the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 346 pages
...Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manners can be known to few, and therefor-e few only can judge...sends us all in quest ; but the pleasures of sudden bonder are soon exhausted,- and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth. Shakspere is, above... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1790 - 1058 pages
...Nothing can pleafe many, and pleafe long, but juft representations of general nature. Particular manners can be known to few, and therefore few only can judge...invention may delight awhile, by that novelty of which the ñî m ¡ïîë faticty of life fends us all in queil; but the pleafures of fuddea wonder are foon... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1793 - 860 pages
...Nothing can pleafe many, and pleafc long, but juft reprefentations of general nature. Particular manners can be known to few, and therefore few only can judge...delight awhile, by that novelty of which the common fatiety of life fends us all in queft; the pleafures of fudden wonder are foon exhaufted, and the mind... | |
 | 1797 - 680 pages
...Nothing can pleafe many and pleafe long, but jufl reprefentations of general nature. Particular manners can be known to few, and therefore few only can judge...delight awhile, by that novelty of which the common fatiety of life fends us all in queil ; but the pleafures of fudden wonder are foon cxhauiled, and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1800 - 330 pages
...juft repi dentitions of gener:! nature. Particular manners can be known to few, and therefore few oniy can judge how nearly they are copied. The irregular...delight awhile, by that novelty of which the common fatiety of life fends us all in queft 5 the pleafures of fudden wonder are foon exhaufted, and the... | |
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