...into believing fiction instead of truth. If, then, we grant something to the exigencies of the drama, time is of all modes of existence most obsequious to the imagination, and we may conceive of a lapse of years as easily as of a passage of hours. Likewise, the different...

...fortresses of security." " He that races against Time has an antagonist not subject to casualties." 1 " Time is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious to the imagination." We read, and are struck by, such passages as these ; but when we ask what is the secret of their power,...

...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, and therefore willingly...

...imitation represent an action that happened years after the first, if it be so connected with it^that 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 contract the time of real actions, and therefore f/ willingly...

...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, and therefore willingly...

...know that we are neither in Rome nor Pontus; that neither Mithridates nor Lucullus are before us.28 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...

...Johnson revised the word antiquity, so in his discussion of time, he similarly reconsiders the term: "Time is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious...imagination; a lapse of years is as easily conceived as a passage of hours" (YJ 7:78). Critics who have faulted Shakespeare for abusing the unity of time present...

...enjoyment and intellectual benefit that may be gotten from a dramatic performance. As Johnson puts it, "Time is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious...imagination; a lapse of years is as easily conceived as a passage of hours." The Romantic reaction against "neoclassical" rules, beginning in the latter part...

...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, and therefore willingly...

...no narration: even Dr Johnson (no instinctive Sternean) remarks in his 'Preface to Shakespeare' that 'time is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious to the imagination' (Johnson, 1963: 502); and Sterne as we know exacts the fullest measure of temporal obsequiousness,...