 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 676 pages
...know that we are neither in Rome nor Pontus ; that neither IVlithridates 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 484 pages
...know that we are neither in Rome nor Pontus; that neither Mithridates nor Lucullits are before us. The drama exhibits successive imitations of successive...imagination ; a lapse of years is as easily conceived as a passage. pf hours. In contemplation we easily contract the time of real actions, and therefore willingly... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 526 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 436 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 - 1823 - 350 pages
...after the first ; if it be so connected with it. that nothing but time can be supposed to intervene 1 Time is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1823 - 432 pages
...and why_maj not Jbhe second imitation represent an action that happened years after the first, if Jt be so connected with it, that nothing but time can be supposed to intervene? Time is, of all modesj of existence, most obsequious to the imagination ; a lapse of years is as easily conceived as... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1824 - 794 pages
...first, if it bo so connected with it, that nothing hut time can he supposed to intervene? Time is, ot passage of hours. In contemplation we easily contract the time of real actions, and therefore willingly... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 476 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... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 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 - 1832 - 364 pages
...know that we are neither in Rome nor Pontus ; that neither Mithridates nor Lucullus are hefore 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... | |
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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... 
