 | William Shakespeare - 1811 - 510 Seiten
...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 - 1810 - 436 Seiten
...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 - 1814 - 532 Seiten
...actions, and why may not the second imitation represent an action that happened years afttr the first; it" it be so connected with it, that nothing but time...imagination; a lapse of years is as easily conceived as a passage ot hours. In contemplation we easily contract the time of rial actions, and therefore willingly... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 492 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 616 Seiten
...know that we are neither in Rome, nor Pontus ; that neither Mithridates, nor Lucullus, is 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... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 624 Seiten
...know that we are neither in Rome, nor Pontus ; that neither Mithridates, nor Lucullus, is 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 - 1816 - 514 Seiten
...exhibits successive imitations of successive actions j and why may not the second imitation represent ^n action that happened years after the first, if it...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... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 1082 Seiten
...represent an action that happened yean after the first, if it be so connected with it, that nothing bat time can be supposed to intervene ? Time is, of all...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 - 1817 - 350 Seiten
...the first ; if it be so connected with it, that nothing but time can be supposed to intervene ? Timo is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious to...imagination ; a lapse of years is as easily conceived as a pasi lage of hours. in contemplation we easily contract the time of real actions, and therefore willingly... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 450 Seiten
...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... | |
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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... 
