 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 416 Seiten
...count the clock, or why an hour should not be a century in that calenture of the brain that can.make the stage a field. The truth is, that the spectators...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... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1826 - 906 Seiten
...Voss and bis two sons, see the Netv Monthly Mag. Ml. 299. 419. Johnson remarks on Scenic Illusion ; "The truth is, that the spectators are always in their...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... | |
 | Rev. George William David Evans - 1835 - 498 Seiten
...that men deliberate in council, or give orders during battle, in recitative; in short, that " they are always in their senses, and know, from the first...act to the last, that the stage is only a stage, and the players only players." The comic, like the serious opera, dates from the year 1597. It was founded... | |
 | 1837 - 336 Seiten
...ecetasy should count the clock, or why an hour should not be a century in that calenture of the brain that can make the stage a field. " The truth is, that...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 Seiten
...ecstasy should count the dock, or why an hour should not be a century in that calenture of the brain that can make the stage a field. " The truth is, that...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... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1842 - 318 Seiten
...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...recited with just gesture and elegant modulation." In revising this note, I wish the student distinctly to understand, that whether stage representation... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 356 Seiten
...the stage a field. The T 2 truth Wit and Wisdom of Samuel Johnson. Wit and Wisdom of Samuel Johnson. truth is that the spectators are always in their senses,...only a stage, and that the players are only players, works, v. 120. • • • FAMILIAR comedy is often more powerful on the theatre than in the page ;... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1890 - 620 Seiten
...nature. Particularly noteworthy is Johnson's discussion of the doctrine of the unities of time and place; the spectators "are always in their senses, and know,...act to the last, that the stage is only a stage;" knowing which they can make time and place, as well as any other mode of being, obsequious to the imagination.... | |
 | James Mercer Garnett - 1891 - 728 Seiten
...ecstacy should count the clock, or why an hour should not be a century in that calenture of the brain that can make the stage a field. The truth is that...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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1893 - 190 Seiten
...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...only a stage, and that the players are only players. . . The delight of tragedy proceeds from our consciousness of fiction ; if we thought murders and treasons... | |
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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. 
