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" Shakespeare, that he assumes, as an unquestionable principle, a position, which, while his breath is forming it into words, his understanding pronounces to be false. It is false that any representation is mistaken for reality ; that any dramatick fable... "
William Shakespeare: The Critical Heritage - Page 15
edited by - 1995 - 568 pages
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 514 pages
...position, which, while his breath is forming it into words, his understanding pronounces to be false. It is false, that any representation is mistaken for...credible, or, for a single moment, was ever credited. The objection arising from the impossibility of. passing the first hour at Alexandria, and the next...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 492 pages
...position, which, while his. breath is forming it into words, his understanding pronounces to be false. It is false, that any representation is mistaken for...credible, or, for a single moment, was ever credited. The objection arising from the impossibility of passing the first hour at Alexandria, and the next...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 2

Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 624 pages
...position which, while his breath is forming it into words, his understanding pronounces to be false. It is false, that any representation is mistaken for reality ; that any dramatic fable in it's materiality was ever credible, or for a single moment was ever credited. ' The...
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Elegant extracts, Volume 55

Elegant extracts - 1816 - 1082 pages
...position, which, while his breath is forming it into words, his understanding pronounces to be 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, was ever credited....
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 2

Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 616 pages
...position which, while his breath is forming it into words, his understanding pronounces to be false. It is false, that any representation is mistaken for reality ; that any dramatic fable in it's materiality was ever credible, or for a single moment was ever credited. * The...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Some account of Shakespeare's ...

William Shakespeare - 1817 - 350 pages
...false. It is false, that any representation is mistaken for reality ; that any dramatic fable in ite materiality was ever credible, or, for a single moment, was ever credited. The objection arising from the impossibility of passing the first hour at Alexandria, and the next...
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Pantologia. A new (cabinet) cyclopædia, by J.M. Good, O. Gregory ..., Volume 4

John Mason Good - 1819 - 822 pages
...posit ¡on, which, while his bre* thi« forming it into words.his understanding pronounces to be false. It is false, that any representation is mistaken for reality; that any dramatic fal>>, in its materiality, was ever credible, or, for a single moment, was ever credited....
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 450 pages
...position, which, while his breath is forming it into words, his understanding pronounces to be 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, was ever credited. The...
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The British review and London critical journal

1822 - 526 pages
...sagacious critic truly denies " 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." To this reasoning we perfectly assent, and where a tragedy is not written for representation, as from...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 484 pages
...position, which, while his breatlr is forming it into words, his understanding pronounces to be false. It is false, that any representation is mistaken for...credible, or, for a single moment, was ever credited. The objection arising from the impossibility of passing the first hour at Alexandria, and the next...
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