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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,... "
The Plays of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of ... - Página 248
por William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Samuel Johnson - 1803
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Toward Standards: A Study of the Present Critical Movement in American Letters

Norman Foerster - 1966 - 244 páginas
...Republic: "Nothing can please many and please long, but just representations of human nature. . . . The irregular combinations of fanciful invention may...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...
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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...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...
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The Harvard Classics, Volumen39

1909 - 498 páginas
...Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manner, can be known to few, and therefore few only can judge...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...
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The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition

Meyer Howard Abrams - 1971 - 420 páginas
...audience both of his own day and of all time. For 'nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manners...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...
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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
...great dictum in the Preface to Shakespeare that Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manners...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...
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The Teaching of English: From the Sixteenth Century to 1870

Ian Michael - 1987 - 652 páginas
...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...
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Sources of Dramatic Theory: Volume 2, Voltaire to Hugo

Michael J. Sidnell - 1991 - 298 páginas
...has gained and kept the favor of his countrymen. Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manners...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...
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The New Theory of Time

Professor L Nathan Oaklander, University Distinguished Faculty Scholar and Professor of Philosophy Quentin Smith - 1994 - 414 páginas
...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 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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William Shakespeare: The Critical Heritage, Volumen5

Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 páginas
...has gained and kept the favour of his countrymen. Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manners...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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Written in Water, Written in Stone: Twenty Years of Poets on Poetry

Martin Lammon - 1996 - 304 páginas
...state Johnson's remark? He says it with such force. Nothing can please many or 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...
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