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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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Aristotle's theory of poetry and fine art: with a critical text and ...

Samuel Henry Butcher, Aristotle - 1898 - 454 pages
...pry so narrowly as to mind what is behind the scenes, provided there be nothing too extravagant.' * '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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A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare: The winter's tale. 1898

William Shakespeare - 1898 - 460 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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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature, Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1902 - 864 pages
...position which, while his breath is forming it into words, his understanding pronounces to be false. econdly, I shall endeavour to shew what knowledge...evidence, and extent of it. Thirdly, I shall make some en The objection arising from the impossibility of passing the first hour at Alexandria, and the next...
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Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare

David Nichol Smith - 1903 - 434 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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Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare

David Nichol Smith - 1903 - 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...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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English Essays

Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1905 - 426 pages
...pronounces to be false. It is false that any representation is mistaken for 5 reality, that any dramatic fable in its 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 at...
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The British classical authors: with biographical notices. On the basis of a ...

Ludwig Herrig - 1906 - 844 pages
...pronounces to be false. It is false that any representation 105 is mistaken for reality, that any dramatic fable in its materiality was ever credible, or, for a single moment, was ever credited. The objection arising from the im- no possibility of passing the first hour at Alexandria, and the...
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Racine et Shakespeare

Stendhal - 1907 - 258 pages
...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 credited. The objection arising from the impossibility of passing the first hour at Alexandria, and...
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Racine Et Shakespeare

Stendhal - 1907 - 254 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 singIe moment, was credited. The objection...
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Johnson on Shakespeare: Essays and Notes

Samuel Johnson - 1908 - 254 pages
...into words, his understanding pronounces to be false. It is false, that any representation is mistake for reality ; that any dramatick fable in its materiality...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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