 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...  Doctor Johnson: His Life, Works & Table Talk - Page 38de James Macaulay - 1884 - 156 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | William Swinton - 1897 - 682 pages
...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...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
...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...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... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1903 - 434 pages
...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...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... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1903 - 434 pages
...and therefore durable ; the adventitious 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 former lustre ; but the discriminations of true passion are the colours... | |
 | 1904 - 390 pages
...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...forms, their pleasures and vexations are communicable at all times and to all places; they are natural, and therefore durable; the adventitious peculiarities... | |
 | Beverley Ellison Warner - 1906 - 328 pages
...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...peculiarities of personal habits, are only superficial dies, bright and pleasing for a little while, yet soon faded to a dim tint, without any remains of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1908 - 254 pages
...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...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... | |
 | 1910 - 482 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 812 pages
...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...forms, their pleasures and vexations are communicable at all times and to all places ; they are natural, and therefore durable ; the adventitious peculiarities... | |
 | William Caxton, Jean Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, Francis Bacon, Edmund Spenser, Sir Walter Raleigh, Isaac Newton, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Wordsworth, Walt Whitman - 1910 - 458 pages
...and therefore durable; the adventitious 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 former lustre; but the discriminations of true passion are the colours... | |
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