 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
 | Samuel L. Macey - 1994 - Страниц: 730
...1899): 111-113. JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784) "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." Upon this challenging premise Johnson builds his famous argument in the Preface to Shakespeare against... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - Страниц: 585
...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. It will be asked how the drama moves, if it is not credited. It is credited with all the credit due... | |
 | Stephen Orgel, Sean Keilen - 1999 - Страниц: 356
...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.* Johnson singles out two telling weaknesses in Castelvetro's "stage deception" theory. First, it is... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - Страниц: 448
...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2008 - Страниц: 380
...places very remote from each other. . . . 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... | |
 | Hugh Fraser Stewart - 1923 - Страниц: 182
...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. TRIBUNALS OF TASTE JUST as Henry IV had restored order and centralisation to the French nation, so... | |
 | 1935 - Страниц: 184
...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. 54 TRIBUNALS OF TASTE JUST as Henry IV had restored order and centralisation to the French nation,... | |
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