 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 346 psl.
...characters are not modified by the customs of particular places, unpraftised by the rest of the world j by the peculiarities of studies or professions, which...supply, and Observation will always find. His persons aft and Kiij speak speak by the influence of those general passions and principles by which all minds... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 494 psl.
...awhile, by that novelty of which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest; the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can...and the whole system of life is continued in motion. In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual; in those of Shakspeare it is... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 394 psl.
...awhile, by that novelty of which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest ; the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can...and the whole system of life is continued in motion. In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual ; in those of Shakspeare it is... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 488 psl.
...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 mind can...and the whole system of life is continued in motion. In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual ; in those of Shakspeare it is... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 390 psl.
...the common satiety of life sends us all in quest; the pleasures of sudden wonder are soonexhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of -...and the whole system of life is continued in motion. In tlie writings of other poets a character is too often an indi\idual; in those of Shakspeare it is... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 444 psl.
...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 mind can...and the whole system of life is continued in motion. In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual ; in those of Shakspeare it is... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 486 psl.
...sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth. Shakespeare is, above all writers, at least above all modern writers,...and the whole system of life is continued in motion. In the writings of other poets a character racter is too often an individual : in those of Shakespeare... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1811 - 510 psl.
...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 mind can...and the whole system of life is continued in motion. In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual ; in those of Shakspeare it is... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 436 psl.
...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 mind can...and the whole system of life is continued in motion. In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual ; in those of Shakspeare it is... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 514 psl.
...sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind cato only repose on the stability of truth. Shakespeare is, above all writers, at least above all modern writers,...and the whole system of life is continued in motion. In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual : in those of Shakespeare it... | |
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Shakespeare is, above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature ; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life. His characters are not modified by the customs of particular places, unpractised... 
