 | 1866 - 520 pages
...else, gives to it its peculiar character. Dr. Johnson has observed that, in modem plays, " The tune required by the fable elapses, for the most part,...first, if it be so connected with it, that nothing but tune can be supposed to intervene. Time is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious to the imagination... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1867 - 470 pages
...know that we are neither in Home 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 f Time is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious to the imagination ; a lapse of years is as easily... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1882 - 996 pages
...know that we are neither in Rome nor Pontus : that neither Mithridates nor Lucullus are before us. hing but Mo / inott obsequious to the imagination ; a lapse of years is as easily conceived as a passage of hours,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1898 - 456 pages
...that we are neither in Rome nor Pontus; that neither Mithridates nor Lucullus are \sic\ before us. The drama exhibits successive imitations of successive...so connected with it that nothing but time can be sapposed to intervene. Time is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious to the imagination ; a lapse... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1905 - 426 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...action that happened years after the first, if it be so con- 10 nected with it that nothing but time can be supposed to intervene? Time is, of all modes of... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - 1906 - 844 pages
...that ITS neither Mithridates nor Lucullus are before us. The drama exhibits successive imaginations of successive actions, and why may not the second imitation represent an action that iso happened years after the first; if it be so connected with it, that nothing but time can be supposed... | |
 | Charles F. Johnson - 1909 - 418 pages
...time for the palace of the Ptolemies, may take it in half an hour for the promontory of Actium. . . . The drama exhibits successive imitations of successive...that nothing but time can be supposed to intervene ? His argument ought to have been enough entirely to destroy the slavish regard for the unities, already... | |
 | Doris Gunnell - 1909 - 346 pages
...that we are neither in Rome nor Pontus ; that neither Mithridates nor Lucullus are before us. Thedrama exhibits successive imitations of successive actions,...represent an action that happened years after the Grst, if itbeso connected with il , that nothing but time can be supposed to interverse. Time is, of... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 754 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...that nothing but time can be supposed to intervene? Tune is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious to the imagination; a lapse of years is as easily... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1908 - 256 pages
...us. _The drama exhibits suc-^| A cessive imitations of successive actions ; and why may fj not_fEe second imitation represent an action that happened years after the first, if it be so connected with it^that nothing but time can be supposed to intervene? Time is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious... | |
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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... 
