 | William Shakespeare - 1788
...nor Athens, but a moderate theatre. By supposition, as place is introduced, time may be extended ; the time required by the fable elapses For the most...part between the acts ; for, of so much of the action as is represented, the real and poetical duration is the same. If, in the first act, preparations for... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803
...Sicily nor Athens, but a modern theatre ? By supposition, as place is introduced, time may be extended ; the time required by the fable elapses for the most...part between the acts ; for, of so much of the action as is represented, the real and poetical duration is the same. If, in the first Act, preparations for... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 394 pages
...Plan of an Englifli Dictionary, p. 33. UNITIES OF TIME AND PLACE. * 1 The time required by a dramatic fable elapses, for the most part, between the acts; for of so much of the action as is represented, the real and poetical duration is the same. If, therefore, in the first act, preparations... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806
...Sicily nor Athens, but a modern theatre ? By supposition, as place is introduced, time may be extended ; the time required by the fable elapses for the most...part between the acts ; for, of so much of the action as is represented, the real vand poetical duration is the same. If, in the first act, preparations... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806
...nor Athens, but a modern theatre ? . By supposition, as place is introduced, time maybe extended ; the time required by the fable elapses for the most part between the acts ; for, of so much »f the action as is represented, the real and poetical duration is the same. If, in the first act,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809
...Sicily nor Athens but a modern theatre ? By supposition, as place is introduced, time may be extended ; the time required by the fable elapses for the most...part between the acts ; for, of so much of the action as is represented, the real and poetical duration is the same. If, in the first act, preparations for... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809
...Sicily nor Athens, but a modern theatre ? By supposition, as place is introduced, time may be extended; the time required by the fable elapses for the most...part between the acts; for, of so much of the action as is represented, the real and poetical duration is the same. If, in the first Act, preparations for... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809
...Sicily nor Athens, but a modern theatre ? By supposition, as place is introduced, time may be extended; the time required by the fable elapses for the most...part between the acts ; for, of so much of the action as is represented, the real and poetical duration is the same. If, in the first Act, preparations for... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810
...Sicily nor Athens, but a modern theatre. By supposition, as place is introduced, time may be extended ; the time required by the fable elapses for the most...part between the acts ; for, of so much of the action as is represented, the real and poetical duration is the same. If, in the first act, preparations for... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810
...Sicily nor Athens, but a modern theatre ? By supposition, as place is introduced, time may be extended; the time required by the fable elapses for the most...part between the acts ; for, of so much of the action as is represented, the real and poetical duration is the same. If, in the first act, preparations for... | |
| |
By supposition, as place is introduced, time may be extended; the time required by the fable elapses for the most part between the acts; for of so much of the action as is represented the real and poetical duration is the same. 
