 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 454 pages
...principles arifing from genuine paffion, very little modified by particular forms, their pleafures and vexations are communicable to all times and to...therefore durable : the adventitious peculiarities of perfonal habits are only fuperficial dyes, bright and pleafing for a little while, yet foon fading... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 494 pages
...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,...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, George Steevens, Samuel Johnson - 1803 - 542 pages
...principles arifing from genuine paffion, very little modified by particular forms, their pleafures and vexations are communicable to all times and to...therefore durable ; the adventitious peculiarities of perfonal habits, are only fuperficial dies, bright and pleafing for a little while, yet foon fading... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1804 - 256 pages
...diminution from the change made by • century and an half in manners or in words. As his personages act upon principles arising from genuine passion,...durable; the adventitious peculiarities of personal hahits, are only superficial dyes, bright and pleasing for a little *hile, yet soon fading to a dim... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1802 - 422 pages
...ariiing from genuine paffion, very little modified by particular forms, their pleafures and vexa» tions are communicable to all times and to all places ;...therefore durable ; the adventitious peculiarities of perfonal habits are only fuperficial dies, bright and plealing for a little while, yet foon fading... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 pages
...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,...a dim tinct, without any remains of former lustre ; but the discriminations of true passion are the colours of nature : they pervade the whole mass,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 394 pages
...diminution from the changes made by a century and 9 half, in manners or in words. As his personage* act upon principles arising from genuine passion,...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 488 pages
...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,...a dim tinct, without any remains of former lustre ; but the discriminations of true passion are the colours of nature ; they pervade the whole mass,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 390 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 530 pages
...added, as worthy of juxta-position, the following admirable paragraph of our author, from this preface, the conclusion of which is alike excellent for its...little modified by particular forms, their pleasures Want with such true beneficence he cheer'd, All that his bounty gave his zeal endcar'd. Learning, as... | |
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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... 
