 | Ian Michael - 1987 - 652 sidor
...analyses the following paragraph: 'Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representation of general nature. Particular manners can be known...of fanciful invention may delight awhile, by that novelsy of which the common satiesy of life sends us all in quest; but the pleasures of sudden wonder... | |
 | Michael J. Sidnell - 1991 - 298 sidor
...kept the favor of his countrymen. Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manners can be known...delight awhile by that novelty of which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest; but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 sidor
...kept the favour of his countrymen. Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manners can be known...delight a-while, by that novelty of which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest; but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the... | |
 | Martin Lammon - 1996 - 304 sidor
...please long but just representations of general nature. Particular manners can be known to few, and few only can judge how nearly they are copied. The...irregular combinations of fanciful invention may delight a while by that novelty, of which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest, but the pleasure... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 1997 - 290 sidor
...and famous passage in the Preface: 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 know how nearly they are copied. The irregular combinations of fanciful invention may delight a-while,... | |
 | Terrington Calas, Steve Bachmann - 2002 - 202 sidor
...according to the criteria Dr. Johnson has set down for the classic, we can expect Mondrian to endure: "The irregular combinations of fanciful invention...delight awhile, by that novelty of which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest; but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the... | |
 | Steven Pinker - 2003 - 532 sidor
...that great intuitive psychologist: Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manners can be known...delight a-while, by that novelty of which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest; but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the... | |
 | John Lennard - 2006 - 448 sidor
...were universal and ahistorical : Nothing can pleafe many, and pleafe long, but juft reprefentations of general nature. Particular manners can be known...delight a-while, by that novelty of which the common iatiety of life fends us all in queft ; but the pleafures of fudden wonder are foon exhaulted, and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2008 - 380 sidor
...Preface to Shakespeare and "King Lear" Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manners can be known...delight awhile, by that novelty of which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest; but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the... | |
 | James Wright - 2008 - 676 sidor
...am trying to say can be expressed in words which have been used often but which cannot be worn out: "The irregular combinations of fanciful invention...delight a-while, by that novelty of which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest; but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the... | |
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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,... 
