 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,...  The Harvard Classics - Page 2201909Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Greg Clingham - 1997 - 290 pages
...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...fanciful invention may delight a-while, by that novelty which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest; but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon... | |
 | Lawrence Lipking - 2009 - 396 pages
...Johnson comes back to the reciprocal relations between the nature outside and inside the reader's head. "The pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted,...the mind can only repose on the stability of truth." Thus truth involves a characteristic self-recognition, in which the mind is quieted by coming home,... | |
 | Norma Clarke - 2001 - 282 pages
...final couplet found better expression in the later Preface to Shakespeare where it appeared as follows: 'the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted,...mind can only repose on the stability of truth'.) Baretti's argument with Johnson, his insistence, 'it is not true that the Apollonian art must be consecrated... | |
 | Dennis Todd, Cynthia Wall, J. Paul Hunter - 2001 - 332 pages
...vigilance and carelessness.41 Johnson insists on "just representations of general nature," because "the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted,...the mind can only repose on the stability of truth. . . . The sand heaped by one flood is scattered by another, but the rock always continues in its place."44... | |
 | Terrington Calas, Steve Bachmann - 2002 - 202 pages
...according to the criteria Dr. Johnson has set down for the classic, we can expect Mondrian to endure: "The irregular combinations of fanciful invention...the mind can only repose on the stability of truth." Mondrian conveyed at least one simple truth: value counts in human life, and it must be asserted. Mondrian's... | |
 | Steven Pinker - 2003 - 532 pages
...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...the mind can only repose on the stability of truth. Today we may be seeing a new convergence of explorations of the human condition by artists and scientists... | |
 | John Lennard - 2006 - 448 pages
...Nothing can pleafe many, and pleafe long, but juft reprefentations of general nature. Particular manners can be known to few, and therefore few only can judge...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... | |
 | George Englebretsen - 2006 - 216 pages
...compared to the substantial and lasting wonders offered up by the natural world. As Samuel Johnson wrote, "the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted,...the mind can only repose on the stability of truth." Chapter 1 A la Recherche du Temps Perdu Truths are illusions. Nietzsche A writer who says there are... | |
 | Tom Quirk - 2013 - 312 pages
..."Particular manners can be known to few, and therefore few can judge how nearly they are copied . . . but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth."29 How Mark Twain fused the curious oddities of particular individuals and pleasing representations... | |
 | James Wright - 2008 - 676 pages
...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...the mind can only repose on the stability of truth." All that is not to say that I dislike fooling around with language — far from it. But the fooling... | |
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