 | Adam Potkay - 2000 - عدد الصفحات: 276
...lament the possibility than suppose the presence of misery, as a mother weeps over a babe, when she remembers that death may take it from her. The delight of tragedy proceeds from our consciousness of fiction; if we thought murders and treasons real, they would please no more" (7:78).... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2008 - عدد الصفحات: 380
...lament the possibility than suppose the 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 murders and treasons real, they would please no more [Shakespeare's]... | |
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If there be any fallacy, it is not that we fancy the players, but that we fancy ourselves unhappy for a moment; but we rather lament the possibility, than suppose the presence of misery, as a mother weeps over her babe, when she remembers that death may... 
