...Nothing can please many and please long, but just representations of human nature. Particular manners can be known to few, and therefore few only can judge...sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can repose only on the stability of truth.' The critic stands or falls by the stability of his truth, and...

...representations of general nature. Particular manner, can be_knqwn to few, and therefore few only can judge i how nearly they are copied. The irregular combinations...the mind can only repose on the stability of truth. / I customs of particular places, unpractised by the rest of the world ; by the peculiarities of studies...

...'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.' a* Therefore it is Shakespeare's great excellence that his characters 'act and speak by the influence...

...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...the mind can only repose on the stability of truth (p. 4 in the 1788 edition). One sometimes feels that Sterne had more doubts about that 'stability of...

...'Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representation of general nature. Particular manners can be known to few, and therefore few only can judge...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...

...end in themselves. The wise words of Dr. Samuel Johnson are relevant here: "The irregular combination of fanciful invention may delight awhile by that novelty...exhausted and the mind can only repose on the stability of the truth." Now Johnson might be opposed, as he was criticizing Tristram Shandy, a work of imagination,...

...different context applies here as well: The irregular combination of fanciful invention may delight for awhile by that novelty of which the common satiety...wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose in the stability of truth. Our minds are equipped, to some extent, with sensors to help us overcome...

...famous comparison of nature and manners differs only in the emphasis provided by Johnson's adjectives: pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and...the mind can only repose on the stability of truth. 153 Although nature need not—and does not—always mean general nature, it does so in the context...

...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...the mind can only repose on the stability of truth. 1 Cf. Whalley (3.278). Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modem writers, the poet...

...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...