 | Sir Walter Scott - France - 1834 - 418 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... | |
 | English literature - 1837 - 336 pages
...false. 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...when the play opens, the spectator really imagines himsejf at Alexandria, and believes that his walk to the theatre has been a voyage to Egypt, and that... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1838 - 1130 pages
...false. It is false, that any representation is mistaken for reality ; that any dramatic fable in its Ò ' ބn n Xy 0m Zb >F k ˿ x |?1 W OO ana believes that his walk to the theatre has been a voyage to Egypt, and that he lives in the days... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1838 - 790 pages
...any dramatic fable in Us materiality was ever credible, or, for a single momeol, was ever crediled. d mathematics: his name spectalor really imagines himself at Alexandria, and believes lhat his walk to the Ihealre has been... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1839 - 550 pages
...false. It is false, that any representaJ tion is mistaken for reality ; that any dramatic fable in its materiality was ever credible, or, for a single moment,...supposes, that when the play opens, the spectator really ima. • ^ 1 gines himself at Alexandria, and believes that his walk to the theatre has been a voyage... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1842 - 318 pages
...says, " 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. The truth is, that the spectators are always in their senses, and know, from the first act to the last,... | |
 | England - 1844 - 828 pages
...of the drama — tiie development of charac(••r and passion. " The objection," siuí Dr Johnson, "arising from the impossibility of passing the first hour at Alexandria, and the next at Home, .-upnoses that, when the play opens, ilit spectator really imagines himself at Alexandria, and"... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1867 - 530 pages
...false. 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...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 believes... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English language - 1893 - 190 pages
...13:28. "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. . . The truth is, that the spectators are always in their senses, and know, from the first act to the last,... | |
 | Samuel Henry Butcher - Aesthetics - 1895 - 418 pages
...generally held to follow as a corollary from Unity of Time.8 Corneille, the that any dramatic fable, in its materiality, was ever credible, or for a single moment was ever credited.' Dr. Johnson, Preface to Sfudcspeare. 1 With regard to Unity of Place Corneille says : « Cela aiderait... | |
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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... 
