Time is of all modes of existence most obsequious to the 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 permit it to be contracted when we... The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott - Стр. 364авторы: Walter Scott - 1837 - Страниц: 477Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
| William Shakespeare - 1867 - Страниц: 642
...critics, boldly meets the difficulty: — "Time is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious to the imagination ; a lapse of years is as easily conceived...contemplation we easily contract the time of real actions, ind therefore willingly permit it to be contracted when we only sec their imitation." The geographical... | |
| Charles Knight - 1868 - Страниц: 570
...but time can be supposed to intervene ! Time is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious to the imagination ; a lapse of years is as easily conceived...be contracted when we only see their imitation."* Shakspere has exhibited his consummate art in opening the fourth act with Polixenes and Camillo, of... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1876 - Страниц: 646
...critics, boldly meets the difficulty. — "Time is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious to the imagination ; a lapse of years is as easily conceived...to be contracted when we only see their imitation." The geographical blunder of the play is this — that Bohemia is described as having a sea-coast. In... | |
| Edwin Simpson-Baikie - 1878 - Страниц: 128
...gives wings to the slow course of hours and of days." (ai) And so also Dr Johnson— "A lapse of time is as easily conceived as a passage of hours. In contemplation,...be contracted, when we only see their imitation." Surely this is evident. If we find no difficulty in transporting ourselves in imagination from this... | |
| Edwin Simpson - 1878 - Страниц: 126
...gives wings to the slow course of hours and of days."(21) And so also Dr Johnson — "A lapse of time is as easily conceived as a passage of hours. In contemplation,...permit it to be contracted, when we only see their invitation." Surely this is evident. If we find no difficulty in transporting ourselves in imagination... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1878 - Страниц: 750
...nothing but time can be supposed to intervene? Time is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious to the imagination ; a lapse of years is as easily conceived...contemplation we easily contract the time of real actions, ntid therefore willingly permit it to be contracted when we only see their imitation. It will be asked,... | |
| John Genest - 1882 - Страниц: 720
...for the most part between the acts — and time is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious to the imagination — a lapse of years is as easily conceived as a passage of hours — the unities of time and place are not essential to a just drama, and tho' they may sometimes conduce... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1882 - Страниц: 996
...but time can be supposed to intervene? Time is, of all modes of existence, inott obsequious to the liam Shakespeare fa contemplation we easily contract the tii-.e of eal actions, and therefore willingly permit it to... | |
| James Mercer Garnett - 1890 - Страниц: 730
...but time can be supposed to intervene ? Time is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious to the imagination ; a lapse of years is as easily conceived...to be contracted when we only see their imitation. It will be asked, how the drama moves, if it is not credited. It is credited with all the credit due... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1898 - Страниц: 460
...nothing but time can be supposed to intervene. Time is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious to the imagination ; a lapse of years is as easily conceived...to be contracted when we only see their imitation. . . . ' A play read, affects the mind like a play acted. It is therefore evident that the action is... | |
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