 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 - Strana 362podľa sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, collected]) - 1827Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | William Shakespeare - 1867 - Počet stránok 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 - Počet stránok 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 - Počet stránok 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 - Počet stránok 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 - Počet stránok 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 - Počet stránok 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 - Počet stránok 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 - Počet stránok 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1887 - Počet stránok 428
...and as for time, it is, to use the words of Dr. Johnson, " of all modes of existence, most obsequious to imagination ; a lapse of years is as easily conceived...does not produce the impression of reality, in what, may it be asked, consists its power ? We reply, that its effects are produced by the powerful emotions... | |
 | James Mercer Garnett - 1890 - Počet stránok 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... | |
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