 | Professor L Nathan Oaklander - 1994 - عدد الصفحات: 378
...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... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - عدد الصفحات: 568
...kept the favour of his countrymen. Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manners can be known...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... | |
 | Martin Lammon - 1996 - عدد الصفحات: 288
...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 delight a while by that novelty, of which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest, but the pleasure... | |
 | Brian Friel, Philip Davis, Catherine Neal Parke, Howard David Weinbrot, Paul J. Korshin, Eithne Henson, Robert DeMaria, Robert Folkenflik, Clement Hawes, Fred Parker, Philip Smallwood, Michael Felix Suarez, John Wilshire, Thomas Keymer, Steven Lynn - 1997 - عدد الصفحات: 266
...and famous passage in the Preface: 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 know how nearly they are copied. The irregular combinations of fanciful invention may delight a-while,... | |
 | Terrington Calas, Steve Bachmann - 2002 - عدد الصفحات: 200
...according to the criteria Dr. Johnson has set down for the classic, we can expect Mondrian to endure: "The irregular combinations of fanciful invention...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... | |
 | Steven Pinker - 2003 - عدد الصفحات: 509
...that great intuitive psychologist: Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manners can be known...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... | |
 | John Lennard - 2006 - عدد الصفحات: 448
...that his truths were universal and ahistorical : Nothing can pleafe many, and pleafe long, but juft reprefentations of general nature. Particular manners...delight a-while, by that novelty of which the common iatiety of life fends us all in queft ; but the pleafures of fudden wonder are foon exhaulted, and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2008 - عدد الصفحات: 340
...Preface to Shakespeare and "King Lear" 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... | |
 | James Wright - 2008 - عدد الصفحات: 672
...am trying to say can be expressed in words which have been used often but which cannot be worn out: "The irregular combinations of fanciful invention...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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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,... 
