 | Samuel Johnson - 1908 - 256 pages
...personages act upon principles arising from genuine passion, very little modified by particular forms^their" pleasures and vexations are communicable to all times and to all places ; th^ji^jja^i^lj^ndjtherefore durable ; the I* adventitious peculiarities of personal habits, are only... | |
 | Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - 1962 - 676 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 discriminations of true passion are the colors of nature: they pervade the whole mass,... | |
 | Michael J. Sidnell - 1991 - 298 pages
...Condell in 1623. 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 discriminations of true passion are the colors of nature; they pervade the whole mass,... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 1997 - 290 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... | |
 | Marshall Brown - 1999 - 292 pages
...Lennox: "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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2008 - 380 pages
...upon principles arising from genuine passion, very little modified by particular forms, their pleasure and vexations are communicable to all times and to...fading to a dim tinct, without any remains of former luster; but the discriminations of true passion are the colors of nature; they pervade the whole mass,... | |
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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... 
