 | Samuel Johnson, William Alexander Clouston - 1875 - 346 pages
...in words. As his personages act upon principles arising from genuine passion very little modified by particular forms, their pleasures and vexations are...pleasing for a little while, yet soon fading to a dim tint, without any remains of their former lustre ; but the discriminations of true passion are the... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1876 - 622 pages
...words. As his personages act upon principles arising from genuine passion, very little modified by particular forms, their pleasures and vexations are...fading to a dim tinct, without any remains of former luster; but the discrimitations of true passion are the colors of nature : they pervade the whole mass,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1878 - 750 pages
...in words. As his personages act on principles arising from genuine passion, very little modified by particular forms, their pleasures and vexations are...peculiarities of personal habits are only superficial dies, bright and pleasing for a kttle while, yet soon fading to a dim tinct, without any remains of... | |
 | William Swinton - 1880 - 694 pages
...words. As his personages act upon principles arising from genuine passion, very little modified by particular forms, their pleasures and vexations are...lustre. But the discriminations of true passion are the colors of nature : they pervade the whole mass, and can only perish with the body that exhibits them.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1882 - 996 pages
...very little modified by particular forms, their pleasures and vexations are communicable to all time; / dies, bright and pleasing for a little while, yet soon fading to a deep tinct, without any remains... | |
 | James Macaulay - 1884 - 164 pages
...wisdom ..... As his personages act upon principles arising from genuine passion, very little modified by particular forms, their pleasures and vexations are...pleasing for a little while, yet soon fading to a dim tint, without any remains of former lustre; but the discriminations of true passion are the colours... | |
 | William Swinton - 1886 - 690 pages
...words. As his personages act upon principles arising from genuine passion, very little modified by particular forms, their pleasures and vexations are...places ; they are natural, and therefore durable. The adventi I. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.1 1564-1616. CHARACTERIZATION BY DR. JOHNSON.1 i. SHAKESPEARE is, above... | |
 | William Swinton - 1887 - 686 pages
...words. As his personages act upon principles arising from genuine passion, very little modified by particular forms, their pleasures and vexations are...lustre. But the discriminations of true passion are the colors of nature : they pervade the whole mass, and can only perish with the body that exhibits them.... | |
 | William Swinton - 1897 - 682 pages
...words. As his personages act upon principles arising from genuine passion, very little modified by particular forms, their pleasures and vexations are...adventitious peculiarities of personal habits are orily superficial dyes, bright and pleasing for a little while, yet soon fading to a dim tinct, without... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1903 - 450 pages
...words. As his personages act upon principles arising from genuine passion, very little modified by particular forms, their pleasures and vexations are...peculiarities of personal habits are only superficial dies, bright and pleasing for a little while, yet soon fading to a dim tinct, without any remains of... | |
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The force of his comic scenes has suffered little diminution from the changes made by a century and a half, in manners or in words. As his personages act upon principles arising from genuine passion, very little modified by particular forms, their pleasures... 
