 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 346 pages
...represent an action that happened years after the first, if it be so connected wilh it, that nothing nothing but time can be supposed to intervene ? Time...imagination ; a lapse of years is as easily conceived as a passage of hours. In contemplation we easily contracl the time of real aftions, and therefore willingly... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 624 pages
...we are neither in Rome nor Pontus ; that neither Mithridates nor Lucullus are before us. The dVama exhibits successive imitations of successive actions...imagination ; a lapse of years is as easily conceived as a passage of hours. In contemplation we easily contract the time of real actions, and therefore willingly... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 494 pages
...we knowthat we are neither in Rome nor Pontus; that neither Mithridates nor Lucullvs are before us. The drama exhibits successive imitations of successive...imagination ; a lapse of years is as easily conceived as a passage of hours. In contemplation we easily contract the time of real actions, and therefore willingly... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 394 pages
...know that we are neither in Rome nor Pontus ; that neither Mithridates nor Lucullus are before us. The drama exhibits successive imitations of successive...imagination ; a lapse of years is as easily conceived as a passage of hours. In eontem plation we easily contract the time of real actions, and therefore willingly... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 376 pages
...Pontus ; that neither Mithridates nor Lucullus are before us. The drama exhibits successive irritations of successive actions ; and why may not the second...imagination ; a lapse of years is as easily conceived as a passage of hours. In contemplation we easily contract the time of real actions, and therefore willingly... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 394 pages
...we know that we are neither in Home nor Pontus; that neither Mithridates nor Lucullus are before us. The drama exhibits successive imitations of successive...imagination; a lapse of years is as easily conceived as a passage of hours. In contemplation we easily contract the time of real action, and therefore willingly... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 488 pages
...know that we are neither in Rome nor Pontus ; that neither Mithridates nor Lucullus are before us. The drama exhibits successive imitations of successive...imagination -, a lapse of years is as easily conceived as a passage of hours. In contemplation we easily contract the time of real actions, and therefore willingly... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 390 pages
...know that we are neither in Rome nor Pontus; that neither .Mithridates nor Lucullus are before us. The drama exhibits successive imitations of successive...imagination; a lapse of years is as easily conceived aa a passage of hours. In contemplation we easily contract the time of real action, and therefore willingly... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 486 pages
...know that we are neither in Rome nor Pontus ; that neither Mithridates nor Litcullus are before us. The drama exhibits successive imitations of successive...be supposed to intervene ? Time is, of all modes of exist-- ence, most obsequious to the imagination ; a lapse of years is as easily conceived as a passage... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 444 pages
...successive imitations of successive actions, and why may not the second imitation represent an actiSn that happened years after the first ; if it be so...is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious to ihe imagination ; a lapse of years is as easily conceived as a passage of hours. In contemplation we... | |
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Time is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious to the imagination ; a lapse of years is as easily conceived as a passage of hours. In contemplation we easily contract the time of real actions, and therefore willingly permit it to be contracted when... 
