 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...misery; as a mother weeps over her babe, when she remembers that death may take it from her. In short, the delight of tragedy proceeds from our consciousness...murders and treasons real, they would please no more. Preface to Shakspeare, p. 114, V. VANITY. THOSE whom their virtue restrains from deceiving others,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1804 - 256 pages
...weeps over her babe when she remembers that death may take it from her. The delights of tragedy proceed from our consciousness of fiction ; if we thought...murders and treasons real, they would please no more. " Whether Shakespeare knew the unities, and rejected them by design, or deviated from them by happy... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 394 pages
...prelence of misery, as a mother weeps over her babe, when she remembers that death may take it from her. The delight of tragedy proceeds from our consciousness...murders and treasons real, they would please no more. . i Imitations produce pain or pleasure, not because they are mistaken for realities, but because they... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 488 pages
...as a mother weeps over her babe, when she remembers that death may take it from her. The VOL. «. 14 delight of tragedy proceeds from our consciousness...mistaken for realities, but because they bring realities *o mind. When the imagination is recreated by a painted landscape, the trees are not supposed capable... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 390 pages
...presence of misery, as a mother weeps over her babe, when she remembers that death may take it from her. The delight of tragedy proceeds from our consciousness...murders and treasons real, they would please no more. A play read, affects the mind like a play acted. It is therefore evident, that the action is not supposed... | |
 | 1809 - 878 pages
...not be mentioned, declares, that " the delight of tragedy proI ^ ceeds from our consciousness of the fiction ; if we thought murders and treasons real, they would please no more." Poems and novels may be cited in confirmation of the commentator's, and in opposition to the , biographer's... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1814 - 532 pages
...presence of misery, as a mother weeps over her babe, when she remembers that death may take it from her. The delight of tragedy proceeds from our consciousness...Imitations produce pain or pleasure, not because they arc mistaken for realities, out because they bring realities to mind. When the imagination is recreated... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1814 - 470 pages
...from her. The delight of tragedy 8-oceeils from our consciousness of fiction ; if we thought murers and treasons real, they would please no more. Imitations produce pain or pleasure, nut because they are mistaken for realities, out because they bring realities to mind. When the imagination... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 1082 pages
...that death may take it from her. The delight of tragedy proceeds from oar consciousness of fiction j if we thought murders and treasons real, they would...no more. Imitations produce pain or pleasure, not § ' bKtOf because they are mistaken for realities, but because they bring realities to mind. When... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 624 pages
...presence of misery, as a mother weeps over her babe, when she remembers that death may take it from her. The delight of tragedy proceeds from our consciousness of fiction ; if we thought murthers and treason real, they would please no more.' ' Imitations produce pain or pleasure, not because... | |
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The delight of tragedy proceeds from our consciousness of fiction; if we thought murders and treasons real they would please no more. 11 Imitations produce pain or pleasure not because they are mistaken for realities, but because they bring realities... 
