 | Charles Knight - 1849 - 574 pages
...the second imitation represent an action that happened years after the first, if it be so connccted with it that nothing but time can be supposed to intervene...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 - 1867 - 642 pages
...sixteen years ; but Dr. Johnson, sometimes the most liberal of critics, boldly meets the difficulty: — "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, ind therefore willingly... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1868 - 570 pages
...know that we are neither in Rome nor Pontus — that neither Mithridatcs 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 - 1878 - 750 pages
...we 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, ntid therefore willingly... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1882 - 996 pages
...know that we are neither in Rome nor Pontus : that neither Mithridates nor Lucullus are before us. hing but Mo / inott obsequious to the imagination ; a lapse of years is as easily conceived as a passage of hours,... | |
 | James Mercer Garnett - English literature - 1891 - 728 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 - 1898 - 460 pages
...that we are neither in Rome nor Pontus; that neither Miihridates nor Lucullus are \sic\ 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 - 1898 - 456 pages
...that we are neither in Rome nor Pontus ; that neither Mithridates nor Lucullus are [sic] 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 - 1898 - 456 pages
...happened years after the first ; if it be so connected with it that nothing but time can be sapposed to intervene. Time is, of all modes of existence,...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 - 1899 - 170 pages
...rules of the Greek stage should not be thus glaringly set at naught. But if time, as Johnson says, " is of all modes of existence most obsequious to the...imagination, a lapse of years is as easily conceived as a passage of hours." Writing two years later in defence of Shakespeare, and in opposition to the French... | |
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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... 
