...very little modified by particular forms, their pleasures and vexations are communicable to all tunes and to all places; they are natural, and therefore...peculiarities of personal habits are only superficial dyes, bright and pleasing for a little while, yet soon fading to a dim tinct, without any remains of...

...scenes has suffered little diminution from the changes made by a century and a half, in manners or words. As his personages act upon principles arising...little modified by particular forms, their pleasures or vexations are communicable to all times and to all places; they are natural, and therefore durable,...

...scenes has suffered little diminution from the changes made by a century and a half, in manners or in words. As his personages act upon principles arising...tinct, without any remains of former lustre ; but the discriminations of true passion are the colours of nature; they pervade the whole mass, and can only...

...vexations are communicable to all times and to all places ; th^ji^jja^i^lj^ndjtherefore durable ; the I* adventitious peculiarities of personal habits, are...tinct, without any remains of former lustre ; but the discriminations of true passion are the colours of nature ; they pervade the whole mass, and can only...

...scenes has suffered little diminution from the changes made by a century and a half, in manners or in words. As his personages act upon principles arising...peculiarities of personal habits are only superficial dyes, bright and pleasing for a little while, yet soon fading to a dim tinct, without any remains of...

...First Folio of Shakespeare's plays was compiled by the actors John Heming and Henry Condell in 1623. personages act upon principles arising from genuine...peculiarities of personal habits are only superficial dyes, bright and pleasing for a little while, yet soon fading to a dim tinct, without any remains of...

...of Horace Walpole, pp. 484f. 4 See 2.58, and Colman's comments, No. 206 below. 1 Cf. Dennis (2.282). particular forms, their pleasures and vexations are...peculiarities of personal habits are only superficial dyes, bright and pleasing for a little while, yet soon fading to a dim tinct, without any remains of...

...scenes has suffered little diminution from the changes made by a century and a half, in manners or in words. As his personages act upon principles arising...tinct, without any remains of former lustre; but the discriminations of true passion are the colours of nature; they pervade the whole mass, and can only...

...26 Johnson's preface reaches its rhetorical crescendo in a recapitulation of his response to Lennox: "As his personages act upon principles arising from...tinct without any remains of former lustre; but the discriminations of true passion are the colours of nature; they pervade the whole mass, and can only...

...upon principles arising from genuine passion, very little modified by particular forms, their pleasure and vexations are communicable to all times and to...peculiarities of personal habits are only superficial dyes, bright and pleasing for a little while, yet soon fading to a dim tinct, without any remains of...