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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,... "
Complete Works: With Dr. Johnson's Preface, a Glossary, and an Account of ... - Página 3
por William Shakespeare - 1838 - 926 páginas
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Readings in English Prose of the Eighteenth Century

Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 752 páginas
...favor of his countrymen. . l£T .' Nothing can please many, and please long, but justrepresentations of general nature. Particular manners can be known...satiety of life sends us all in quest; but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, ancLthe mind can only repose on the stability of truth. Shakespeare...
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Doctor Johnson: A Study in Eighteenth Century Humanism

Percy Hazen Houston - 1923 - 346 páginas
...Shakespeare abounds in like principles. "Nothing can please many, and please long," he says there, "but just representations of general nature. Particular...satiety of life sends us all in quest; but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth." Shakespeare's...
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Countries of the Mind: Essays in Literary Criticism. 2d Ser

John Middleton Murry - 1922 - 272 páginas
...Dr Johnson said : — ' Nothing can please many and please long, but just representations of human nature. Particular manners can be known to few, and...satiety of life sends us all in quest; but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can repose only on the stability of truth.' The critic...
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Essays on English and American Literature, and a Sheaf of Poems: Offered to ...

Jan Bakker, J. A. Verleun, J. v. d Vriesenaerde - 1987 - 248 páginas
...sceptical of 'the stability of truth' to conform to his great dictum in the Preface to Shakespeare that Nothing can please many, and please long, but just...satiety of life sends us all in quest; but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth (p. 4 in...
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Sources of Dramatic Theory: Volume 2, Voltaire to Hugo

Michael J. Sidnell - 1991 - 298 páginas
...is proper to inquire, by what peculiarities of excellence Shakespeare has gained and kept the favor of his countrymen. Nothing can please many, and please...satiety of life sends us all in quest; but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth. Shakespeare...
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William Shakespeare: The Critical Heritage, Volumen5

Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 páginas
...prejudice or fashion; it is proper to inquire by what peculiarities of excellence Shakespeare has gained and kept the favour of his countrymen. Nothing can...satiety of life sends us all in quest; but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth. 1 Cf....
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The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

Steven Pinker - 2003 - 532 páginas
...edition of Shakespeare's plays, comments on the lasting appeal of that great intuitive psychologist: Nothing can please many, and please long, but just...satiety of life sends us all in quest; but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth. Today...
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The Tragedy of King Lear: With Classic and Contemporary Criticisms

William Shakespeare - 2008 - 380 páginas
...fly at my desire. Preface to Shakespeare Samuel Johnson From Preface to Shakespeare and "King Lear" Nothing can please many, and please long, but just...satiety of life sends us all in quest; but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth. Shakespeare...
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