 | John Middleton Murry - 1922 - 272 pagina’s
...Dr Johnson said : — ' Nothing can please many and please long, but just representations of human nature. Particular manners can be known to few, and...satiety of life sends us all in quest; but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can repose only on the stability of truth.' The critic... | |
 | Wylie Sypher - 1947 - 1294 pagina’s
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 | Samuel Johnson - 1950 - 972 pagina’s
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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,... 
