 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
 | Doris Gunnell - 1909 - Počet stránok 346
...but time can be supposed to interverse. Time is, of ail 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. faire à Rome des préparatifs pour la guerre contre Mithridate, au cinquième acte la conclusion de... | |
 | Victor Hugo - 1909 - Počet stránok 214
...one time for the place of the Ptolemies may take it in half an hour for the promontory of Actium. ... A lapse of years is as easily conceived as a passage of hours.' (Dr. Johnson, Preface to his edition of Shakespeare.) 1. 1 1. Toute action a sa durée propre. Cf.... | |
 | Brander Matthews - 1910 - Počet stránok 360
...nor Athens but a modern theater ? ... Time is, of all modes of existence, the most obsequious to the imagination ; a lapse of years is as easily conceived...to be contracted when we only see their imitation. — SAMUEL JOHNSON, Preface to Shakspere. I IN the ever-delightful pages in which Dickens describes... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - Počet stránok 754
...nothing but time can be supposed to intervene? Tune 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... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - Počet stránok 752
...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... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - Počet stránok 744
...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... | |
 | Hans Meier - 1916 - Počet stránok 124
...viel Zeit vergehen lassen, als er braucht. 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.168) Er geht sogar so weit, zu behaupten, that no more account of space or duration is to be... | |
 | 1909 - Počet stránok 498
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1908 - Počet stránok 256
...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...easily contract the time of real actions, and therefore f/ willingly permit it to be contracted when we only see their imitation. It will be asked, how the... | |
 | Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - 1962 - Počet stránok 676
...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... | |
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