 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 15edited by - 1995 - 568 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 526 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 350 pages
...position, which, while his breath is forming it into words, his understandingpronounces 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... | |
 | Aristotle - 1823 - 510 pages
...illusion28 ; and an English critic, of not less name, has said with his usual perspicuity and intrepidity, " 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."29 But... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 416 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...materiality was ever credible, or, for a single moment, was over credited. The objection arising from the impossibility of passing the first hour at Alexandria,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1824 - 794 pages
...position, which, while his breath is forming it into words, his understanding pronounces to be false. ear the •V "*ïrci- dramatic fable, in its materiality, was ever credible, or, for a single moment, was ever credited.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 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... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 750 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 table in its materiality was ever credible, or, for a single 1 moment, ivas ever credited.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1825 - 1010 pages
...position, which, while his breath is forming it into words, hii understanding pronounces to be false. weet wench, they shall not touch thee, Kate ; ['11 buckler thee against dramatic fable in its materiality was ever credible, or, for a single moment, was ever credited. The... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, collected]) - 1827 - 488 pages
...observance of .the unities, suppose the audience to be lulled. To use the nervous words of Johnson, " 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 " There... | |
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