| William Caxton, Jean Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, John Knox, Edmund Spenser, Sir Walter Raleigh, Francis Bacon, John Heminge, Henry Condell, Isaac Newton, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Wordsworth, Walt Whitman, Hippolyte Taine - 1910 - 638 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... | |
| Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 754 páginas
...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... | |
| Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 páginas
...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... | |
| Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 páginas
...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... | |
| John Burnet - 1913 - 162 páginas
...interest as that novelty vanishes ; or, as Doctor Johnson expresses it, "the irregular combination of fanciful invention may delight awhile by that novelty, of which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest ; the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the... | |
| Richard Pape Cowl - 1914 - 346 páginas
...please long, but just genera?"5 °f rePresentations of general nature. Particular manners can nature. be known to few, and therefore few only can judge...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... | |
| Hans Meier - 1916 - 124 páginas
...chaSe.68) Eine Anspielung auf Somerville. Nothing can please many, and please long, bat just representation of general nature. Particular manners can be known...therefore, few only can judge how nearly they are copied.69) Bemerkenswert ist Johnsons Ansicht über die Liebe als Stoff einer Dichtung. Wenn er ihr... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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