 | Stephen Orgel, Sean Keilen - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 356 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, and therefore willingly... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 448 pages
...know that we are neither in Rome nor Pontw, 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 - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 380 pages
...but the different actions that complete a story may be in places very remote from each other. . . . 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... | |
 | Hugh Fraser Stewart - Classicism - 1923 - 182 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, and, therefore, willingly... | |
 | 1935 - 184 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, and, therefore, willingly... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1838 - 476 pages
...imitations of successive actions, and why may not the second imitation represent an action that bappciifd years after the first, if it be so connected with...to the imagination ; a lapse of years is as easily C"ticeived as a passage of hours. In contemplation we easily contract the time of real actions, and... | |
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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... 
