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" 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. "
Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge - Page 107
1833
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 450 pages
...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...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 676 pages
...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 a» is represented, the real and poetical duration is the same. If, in the first Act, preparations...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 484 pages
...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...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, in Ten Volumes: The author's life ...

William Shakespeare - 1823 - 350 pages
...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...
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The plays of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text of the ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1823 - 526 pages
...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...
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Elegant Extracts: Or Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose

Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1824 - 794 pages
...Sicily nor Athens, but a modern theatre? By supposition, as place is introduced, time may be extended ; as is represented, the real and poetical duration is the same. If, in the first act, preparations for...
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The works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 9

Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 416 pages
...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, VOL. x. o of so much of the action as is represented, the real and poetical duration is the same. If,...
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Examples of English Prose: From the Reign of Elizabeth to the Present Time ...

George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...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...
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The works of Samuel Johnson [ed. by F.P. Walesby].

Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 pages
...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...
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The Works of Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Steevens, and Reed

William Shakespeare - Actors - 1825 - 1010 pages
...Sicily nor Athens, but a modern theatre? By supposition, as place is introduced, time may be extended; is the motley-minded gentleman, that I have so often...met in the forest: He hath been acourtier, he swea as is represented, the real and poetical duration is the same. If, in the first act, preparations for...
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