 | Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1823 - 432 pages
...false. It is false, that any representation is mistaken for reality; that any dramatick fable in its materiality was ever credible, or, for a single moment,...passing the first hour at Alexandria, and the next at Home, supposes, that when the play opens, the spectator really imagines himself at Alexandria, and... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1824 - 794 pages
...false. It is false, that any representation is mistaken for reality ; that any dramatic fable, in its i, j - ξ~u%Go\ r & C ( 6 nB o c- Y' a O ǡ = ) n t ԒњjE % g ) Fu y x E]? / C : 4s D D : v:tu thai he lives in the days of Antony and Cleopatra. Surely he that imagines this may imagine more. He... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 416 pages
...reality; that any dramatick fable in its materiality was ever credible, or, for a single moment, was over credited. The objection arising from the impossibility...play opens, the spectator really imagines himself at -xandria, and believes that his walk to the theatre has been a voyage to Egypt, and that he lives in... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 502 pages
...false. It is false, that any representation is mistaken for reality ; that any dramatick fable in its materiality was ever credible, or, for a single moment,...voyage to Egypt, and that he lives in the days of Anthony and Cleopatra. Surely he that imagines this may imagine more. He that can take the stage at... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 pages
...false. It is false, that any representation is mistaken for reality ; that any dramatick fable in its materiality was ever credible, or, for a single moment,...voyage to Egypt, and that he lives in the days of Anthony and Cleopatra. Surely he that imagines this may imagine more. He that can take the stage at... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 pages
...false. It is false, that any representation is mistaken for reality; that any dramatick fable in its materiality was ever credible, or, for a single moment,...voyage to Egypt, and that he lives in the days of Anthony and Cleopatra. Surely he that imagines this may imagine more. He that can take the stage at... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 476 pages
...false. It is false, that any representation is mistaken for reality ; that any dramatick fable in its materiality was ever credible, or, for a single moment,...his walk to the theatre has been a voyage to Egypt, itnA that he lives in the days of Anthony and Cleopatra. Surely he that imagines this may imagine more.... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, collected]) - 1827 - 488 pages
...Johnson, " It is -false, that any representation is mistaken for reality ; that any dramatic fable in its materiality was ever credible, or, for a single moment, was ever credited " There is a conventional treaty between the author and theaudience, that, upon certain suppositions... | |
 | Leonard Shelford - Costs (Law) - 1833 - 964 pages
...old familiars, a room illuminated with candles now comes to him to be the plains of Pharsalia, or he believes that his walk to the theatre has been a voyage to Egypt, and that he lives in the days of Anthony and Cleopatra (p)." There seems to be more difficulty in fixing the meaning of the terms "... | |
 | Walter Scott - Chilvary - 1834 - 424 pages
...Johnson, " It is false, that any representation is mistaken for reality ; that any dramatic fable in its materiality was ever credible, or, for a single moment, was ever credited." There is a conventional treaty between the author and the audience, that, upon certain suppositions... | |
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The objection arising from the impossibility of passing the first hour at Alexandria, and the next at Rome, supposes that when the play opens, the spectator really imagines himself at Alexandria, and believes that his walk to the theatre has been a voyage... 
