 | Greg Clingham - 1997 - 290 страници
...from an early 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 - 202 страници
...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 - 532 страници
...lasting appeal of that great intuitive psychologist: Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manners...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... | |
 | Alan R. H. Baker, Mark Billinge - 2004 - 244 страници
...According to Johnson at the end of our period, 'nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manners can be known to few, and so few only can judge how nearly they are copied' (Mayhew 1997: 11; 1998 and 1999). It was Romanticism... | |
 | John Lennard - 2006 - 448 страници
...were universal and ahistorical : Nothing can pleafe many, and pleafe long, but juft reprefentations of general nature. Particular manners can be known...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 - 380 страници
...Johnson From Preface to Shakespeare and "King Lear" Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manners...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 - 676 страници
...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,... 
