 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 - 1898 - Počet stránok 462
...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 - 1898 - Počet stránok 456
...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 - 1898 - Počet stránok 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1899 - Počet stránok 170
...set at naught. But if time, as Johnson says, " is of all modes of existence most obsequious to the imagination, a lapse of years is as easily conceived as a passage of hours." Writing two years later in defence of Shakespeare, and in opposition to the French school, Lessing... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1903 - Počet stránok 450
...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... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1903 - Počet stránok 434
...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... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1905 - Počet stránok 426
...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...real actions, and therefore willingly permit it to be 15 contracted when we only see their imitation. It will be asked how the drama moves if it is not credited.... | |
 | Beverley Ellison Warner - 1906 - Počet stránok 328
...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... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - 1906 - Počet stránok 844
...but time can be supposed to intervene? Time is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious to the 186 imagination; a lapse of years is as easily conceived...real actions, and therefore willingly permit it to be 190 contracted when we only see their imitation. It will be asked how the drama moves, if it is not... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1908 - Počet stránok 254
...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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