 | William Shakespeare - 1788
...that we are neither in Rome nor Pontus; that neither Mithridates nor Lucullus are before us. The drama exhibits successive imitations of successive actions...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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 394 페이지
...we are neither in Rome, nor Pontus; that neither Mithridates, nor Lucullus, are before us. The drama exhibits successive imitations of successive actions;...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806
...we are neither in Rome nor Pontus ; that neither Mithridates nor Lucullus are before us. The drama exhibits successive imitations of successive actions,...years is as easily conceived as a passage of hours. In eontem plation we easily contract the time of real actions, and therefore willingly permit it to be... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809
...we are neither in Rome nor Pontus; that neither .Mithridates nor Lucullus are before us. The drama exhibits successive imitations of successive actions,...imagination; a lapse of years is as easily conceived aa a passage of hours. In contemplation we easily contract the time of real action, and therefore willingly... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810
...we are neither in Rome nor Pontus ; that neither Mithridates nor Litcullus are before us. The drama exhibits successive imitations of successive actions...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
...we are neither in Rome nor Pontus ; that neither Mithridates nor Lucullus are before us. The drama exhibits successive imitations of successive actions,...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
...we are neither in Rome nor Pontus: that neither Mithridates nor Luculitts are before us. The drama exhibits successive imitations of successive actions,...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
...we are neither in Rome nor Pontus ; that neither Mithridates nor Lucullus are before us. The drama exhibits successive imitations of successive actions...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
...we are neither in Rome nor Pontus ; that neither Mithridates nor Lucullus are before us. The drama exhibits successive imitations of successive actions,...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 402 페이지
...are neither in Rome nor Pontius ; that neither Mithridates nor Lucutttts are before us. The -drama exhibits successive imitations of successive actions;...years is as easily conceived as a passage of hours. In content• pktion we easily contract the time of real actions, and therefore willingly permit it to... | |
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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 are before us. The drama exhibits successive imitations of successive actions, and why may not the... 
