| 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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