 | Catherine Neal Parke - 1991 - 178 페이지
...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...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 themselves as... | |
 | Samuel L. Macey - 1994 - 699 페이지
...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...years is as easily conceived as a passage of hours." The Romantic reaction against "neoclassical" rules, beginning in the latter part of the eighteenth... | |
 | David Pierce, Peter Jan de Voogd - 1996 - 206 페이지
...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,... | |
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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... 
