 | Samuel Johnson - 1765 - 80 pagini
...yet let it be confidered likewife, that melancholy is often not pleafing, and that the difturbance of one man may be the relief of another ; that different...variety. The players, who in their edition divided our authour's works into comedies, hiftories, and tragedies, feem not to have diftinguifhed the three kinds,... | |
 | 1765 - 600 pagini
...yet let it be confidered likewife, that melancholy is often not pleafing, and that the diilurbaoce of one man may be the relief of another ; that different...upon the whole, all pleafure confifts in variety.' We do not feel the force of this reafoning ; though we think the critics have condemned this kind of... | |
 | Several Hands - 1765 - 624 pagini
...yet let it be confidered likewife, that melancholy is often not pleafing, and that the difturbance of one man may be the relief of another ; that different...habitudes ; and that, upon the whole, all pleafure confins i n. variety.' We do not feel the force of this reafoning ; though we think the critics have... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1768 - 676 pagini
...yet let it be confidered likewife, that melancholy is often not pleating, and that the difturbance of one man may be the relief of another; that different...variety. The players, who in their edition divided our authour's works into comedies, hiftories, and tragedies, {eem not to have diftinguifhed the three kinds,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1773 - 554 pagini
...yet let it be confidered likewife, that melancholy is often not pleafing, and that the difturbance of one man .may be the relief of another; that different...to have diftinguifhed the three kinds, by any very exaft or definite ideas. An action which ended happily to the principal perfons, however ferious or... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 374 pagini
...yet let it be confidered likewife, that Melancholy is often not pleafing, and that the Difturbance •of one Man may be the Relief of another ; that...Variety. The Players, who in their Edition divided our Authour's Works into Comedies, Hiftories, and Tragedies, feem not to have diftinguifhed the three Kinds... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 374 pagini
...yet let it be confidered likewife, that Melancholy is often not pleating, and that the Diflurbance of one Man may be the Relief of another ; that different...Habitudes ; and that, upon the Whole, all Pleafure confifls in Variety. The Players, who in their Edition divided our Authour's Works into Comedies, Hiftories,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1778 - 746 pagini
...considered likewife, that melancholy is often not pleafing, and that the difturbance of one man maybe the relief of another; that different auditors have...habitudes; and that, upon the whole, all pleafure confiits in variety. . The players, who in their edition divided our author's works into comedies,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 500 pagini
...be confidered likewife, that melancholy is ofien not pleafing, and that the difturbance of one m~n may be the relief of another; that different auditors have different habitudes ; and that, imon the whole, all pleafure confifts in variety. The players, who in their edition divided our author's... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 346 pagini
...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,... | |
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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,... 
