 | Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1823 - 432 pages
...is, that the spectators are always in their senses, and know, from the first act to the last, '• the stage is only a stage, and that the players are only players. They came to hear a certain number of lines recited with just gesture and elegant modulation. The lines... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1824 - 794 pages
...brain that can make the stage a field. The truth is, that the spectators are always in their senses, % =]: : 9 came to hear a certain number of lines recited with just gesture and elegant modulation. The lines... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 460 pages
...first act to the last, that the stage is only a stage, and that the players are only players. They came to hear a certain number of lines recited with just gesture and elegant VOI^. II. H modulation. The lines relate to some action, and an action must be in some place ; but... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 750 pages
...first act to the last, that the stage is only a stage, and that the players are only players. They came to hear a certain number of lines recited with just gesture and elegant modulation. The linee relate to some action, and an action must be in some place ; but the different action« that... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1826 - 906 pages
...Johnson remarks on Scenic Illusion ; "The truth is, that the spectators are always in their senses, and know from the first act to the last, that the stage U only a • i !••.-, and that the players arc only players, Sec." According to Yriarte, in his... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1838 - 520 pages
...the first. " The spectators," says Johnson, " are always in their senses, " and know from first to last that the stage is only " a stage, and that the players are only players." • " Our thoughtless sex is caught by outward form, " And empty noise, and loves itself in man." "... | |
 | English literature - 1837 - 336 pages
...brain that can make the stage a field. " The truth is, that the spectators are always in their senses, and know, from the first act to the last, that the stage is only a stage, that the players are only players. They come to hear a certain number of lines recited with just gesture... | |
 | 1837 - 348 pages
...brain that can make the stage a field. " The truth is, that the spectators are always in their senses, and know, from the first act to the last, that the stage is only a stage, that the players are only players. They come to hear a certain number of lines recited with just gesture... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1837 - 522 pages
...the first. " The spectators," says Johnson, " are always in their senses, " and know from first to last that the stage is only " a stage, and that the players are only players." • " Our thoughtless sex is caught by outw&rdform, " And empty noise, and loves itself in man." "... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1838 - 790 pages
...stage a (¡eld. The truth is, that the spectators are always in their senses, and know, from the lirsl love. Twas pretty, though a the players »re only players. They come to hear a certain number of lines recited wilh just gesture... | |
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The truth is that the spectators are always in their senses and know from the first act to the last that the stage is only a stage and that the players are only players. 
