...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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,...

...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...

...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...

...differing frequently from that which belongs to the age and country where the scene is laid — interrupt, at every turn, every approximation to the fantastic...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...

...of Johnson, " It I is false, that any representation is mistaken for reality ; that any draI matic fable in its materiality was ever credible, or, for...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...