...are neither in Rome nor Pontus; that neither Mithridates nor Lucullus are \sic\ before us. The drama exhibits successive imitations of successive actions,...so connected with it that nothing but time can be sapposed to intervene. Time is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious to the imagination ; a lapse...

...rules of the Greek stage should not be thus glaringly set at naught. But if time, as Johnson says, " is of all modes of existence most obsequious to the...years is as easily conceived as a passage of hours." Writing two years later in defence of Shakespeare, and in opposition to the French school, Lessing...

...years ; but Dr. Johnson, sometimes the most liberal of critics, boldly meets the difficulty : — " Time is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious...imagination , a lapse of years is as easily conceived as The geographical blunder of the play is this — that Bohemia is described as having a seacoast In...

...that we are neither in Rome nor Pontus, that neither Mithridates nor Lucullus are before us. The drama exhibits successive imitations of successive actions;...action that happened years after the first, if it be so con- 10 nected with it that nothing but time can be supposed to intervene? Time is, of all modes of...

...that ITS neither Mithridates nor Lucullus are before us. The drama exhibits successive imaginations of successive actions, and why may not the second imitation represent an action that iso happened years after the first; if it be so connected with it, that nothing but time can be supposed...

...palace of the Ptolemies, may take it in half an hour for the promontory of Actium. . . . The drama exhibits successive imitations of successive actions,...that nothing but time can be supposed to intervene ? His argument ought to have been enough entirely to destroy the slavish regard for the unities, already...

...that we are neither in Rome nor Pontus ; that neither Mithridates nor Lucullus are before us. Thedrama exhibits successive imitations of successive actions,...represent an action that happened years after the Grst, if itbeso connected with il , that nothing but time can be supposed to interverse. Time is, of...

...one time for the place of the Ptolemies may take it in half an hour for the promontory of Actium. ... A lapse of years is as easily conceived as a passage of hours.' (Dr. Johnson, Preface to his edition of Shakespeare.) 1. 1 1. Toute action a sa durée propre. Cf....

...that we are neither in Rome nor Pontus; that neither Mithridates nor Lucullus are before us. The drama exhibits successive imitations of successive actions;...that nothing but time can be supposed to intervene? Tune is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious to the imagination; a lapse of years is as easily...

...number.167) Zwischen den Akten aber darf der Dichter so viel Zeit vergehen lassen, als er braucht. Time is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious...lapse of years is as easily conceived as a passage of hours.168) Er geht sogar so weit, zu behaupten, that no more account of space or duration is to be...