 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 348 pages
...another ; that different authors have different habitudes ; and that, on the whole, all pleasure consists in variety. The players, who in their edition divided our author's works into comedies, histories, and tragedies, seem not to have distinguished the three kinds by any very exact or definite... | |
 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 pages
...that ditrereut auditors have different habitudes ; and that, upon the whole, all pleasure consists in variety. The players, who in their edition divided our author's works into comedies, histories, and tragedies, seem not to have distinguished the three kinds by any very exact or definite... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Authors - 1879 - 576 pages
...unweleome levity, yet let it be considered that melancholy is often not pleasing, and that the disturbance ct with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions,...and debates of mankind. When I read the several d pleasure consists in variety. Preface to Johnson's edition of Shakespeare, 176B, POPE'8 TRAN8LATIOM... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1882 - 996 pages
...that different auditors liave different habitudes ; and that, upon the whole, all pleasure consists /@ / histories, and tragedies, seem not to have distinguished the three kinds, by any > cry exact or definite... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1903 - 434 pages
...yet let it be considered likewise, that melancholy is often not pleasing, and that the disturbance of one man may be the relief of another ; that different...different habitudes ; and that, upon the whole, all pleasure consists in variety. The players, who in their edition divided our author's works into comedies,... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1903 - 450 pages
...adventitious. His story requires Romans or kings, but ' he thinks only on men. He knew that Rome, like The players, who in their edition divided our author's works into comedies, histories, and tragedies, seem not to have distinguished the three kinds, by any very exact or definite... | |
 | Jeannette Leonard Gilder - Literature - 1905 - 330 pages
...unwelcome levity, yet let it be considered that melancholy is often not pleasing, and thit the disturbance of one man may be the relief of another; that different...different habitudes ; and that upon the whole, all pleasure consists in variety. PROLOGUE (Spoken by Garrick at the opening of the Theater Royal, Drnry... | |
 | Beverley Ellison Warner - Drama - 1906 - 328 pages
...yet let it be considered likewise, that melancholy is often not pleasing, and that the disturbance of one man may be the relief of another ; that different...different habitudes; and that, upon the whole, all pleasure consists in variety. The players, who in their edition divided our author's works into comedies,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1908 - 254 pages
...yet let it be considered likewise, that melancholy is often not pleasing, and that the disturbance of one man may be the relief of another ; that different...different habitudes ; and that, upon the whole, all pleasure consists in variety. The players, who in their edition divided our authour's works into comedies,... | |
 | 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 - Prefaces - 1910 - 458 pages
...yet let it be considered likewise, that melancholy is often not pleasing, and that the disturbance of one man may be the relief of another; that different...different habitudes; and that, upon the whole, all pleasure consists in variety. The players, who in their edition divided our authour's works into comedies,... | |
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Fiction cannot move so much, but that the attention may be easily transferred ; and though it must be allowed that pleasing melancholy be sometimes interrupted by unwelcome levity, yet let it be considered likewise, that melancholy is often not pleasing,... 
