 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 346 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...happened years after the first, if it be so connected wilh it, that nothing nothing but time can be supposed to intervene ? Time is, of all modes of existence,... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 591 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...with it, that nothing but time can be supposed to inter, vene ? Time is, of all modes of existence, most obse» quious to the imagination ; a lapse of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 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...that nothing but time can be supposed to intervene? , The lines, likewise, of a play, relate to some action, and an action must be in some place; but the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 486 pages
...know that we are neither in Rome nor Pontus ; that neither Mithridates nor Litcullus are before us. The drama exhibits successive imitations of successive...be supposed to intervene ? Time is, of all modes of exist-- ence, most obsequious to the imagination ; a lapse of years is as easily conceived as a passage... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 444 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...and why may not the second imitation represent an actiSn that happened years after the first ; if it be so connected with it, that nothing but time can... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1814 - 532 pages
...know that we are neither in Rome nor Pontus: that neither Mithridates nor Luculitts are before us. The drama exhibits successive imitations of successive...imitation represent an action that happened years afttr the first; it" it be so connected with it, that nothing but time can be supposed to intervene?... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 1082 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...second imitation 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1817 - 350 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...that nothing but time can be supposed to intervene ? Timo is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious to the imagination ; a lapse of years is as easily... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 350 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...that nothing but time can be supposed to intervene 1 Time is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious to the imagination ; a lapse of years is as easily... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 432 pages
...are before us. The drama^ exhibits successive imitations of successive actions; and why_maj not Jbhe second imitation represent an action that happened years after the first, if Jt be so connected with it, that nothing but time can be supposed to intervene? Time is, of all modesj... | |
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Rome, the event of the war may, without absurdity, be represented, in the catastrophe, as happening in Pontus; we know that there is neither war, nor preparation for war; we know that we are neither in Rome nor Pontus; that neither Mithridates nor Lucullus... 
