...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,...

...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 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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...