 | Jan Bakker, J. A. Verleun, J. v. d Vriesenaerde - 1987 - 248 pagine
...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...the mind can only repose on the stability of truth (p. 4 in the 1788 edition). One sometimes feels that Sterne had more doubts about that 'stability of... | |
 | Ian Michael - 1987 - 652 pagine
...combinations of fanciful invention may delight awhile, by that novelsy of which the common satiesy of life sends us all in quest; but the pleasures of...soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stabilisy of truth.' He calls 'Nothing . . . long' the 'principal' sentence because the other two relate... | |
 | Michael J. Sidnell - 1991 - 298 pagine
...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...the mind can only repose on the stability of truth. Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature <Gt/136>; the... | |
 | Thomas V. Morris - 1994 - 298 pagine
...different context applies here as well: The irregular combination of fanciful invention may delight for awhile by that novelty of which the common satiety...wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose in the stability of truth. Our minds are equipped, to some extent, with sensors to help us overcome... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 pagine
...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...the mind can only repose on the stability of truth. 1 Cf. Whalley (3.278). Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modem writers, the poet... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 1997 - 290 pagine
...they are copied. The irregular combinations of fanciful invention may delight a-while, by that novelty which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest;...the mind can only repose on the stability of truth. Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature; the poet that... | |
 | Terrington Calas, Steve Bachmann - 2002 - 202 pagine
...according to the criteria Dr. Johnson has set down for the classic, we can expect Mondrian to endure: "The irregular combinations of fanciful invention may delight...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 pagine
...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...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 pagine
...Gulf (London: Jonathan Cape, 1969), 67-8. Hearing Forty [for lohn Figueroa] The irregular combination of fanciful invention may delight awhile by that novelty...the mind can only repose on the stability of truth . . . — SAMUEL JOHNSON Insomniac since four, hearing this narrow, rigidly metred, early-rising rain... | |
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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, by that novelty of which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest ; but the... 
