...For it is faulty both in place and time, the two necessary companions of all corrjoral actions. For where the stage should always represent but one place, and the uttermost time presupposed in it should be, both by Aristotle's precept and common reason, but one day : there...

...an action that happened years after the first ; if it be so connected with it that nothing but time can be supposed to intervene. Time is, of all modes...imagination ; a lapse of years is as easily conceived as a passage of hours. In contemplation we easily contract the time of real actions, and therefore willingly...

...an action that happened years after the first ; if it be so connected with it that nothing but time can be supposed to intervene. Time is, of all modes...imagination ; a lapse of years is as easily conceived as a passage of hours. In contemplation we easily contract the time of real actions, and therefore willingly...

...happened years after the first ; if it be so connected with it that nothing but time can be sapposed to intervene. Time is, of all modes of existence,...imagination ; a lapse of years is as easily conceived as a passage of hours. In contemplation we easily contract the time of real actions, and therefore willingly...

...For il is faulty both in place aud lime, thé two necessary companions of all corporal actions. For where the stage should always represent but one place ; and the uttermost time presupposed in it should be, both by Aristotle's precept, and common reason, but one day; there...

...years ; but Dr. Johnson, sometimes the most liberal of critics, boldly meets the difficulty : — " Time is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious...imagination , a lapse of years is as easily conceived as The geographical blunder of the play is this — that Bohemia is described as having a seacoast In...

...rules of the Greek stage should not be thus glaringly set at naught. But if time, as Johnson says, " is of all modes of existence most obsequious to the...imagination, a lapse of years is as easily conceived as a passage of hours." Writing two years later in defence of Shakespeare, and in opposition to the French...

...Gorboduc, finds it " faulty in time and place, the two necessary companions of all corporal actions ; for where the stage should always represent but one place, and the uttermost time presupposed in it should be, both by Aristotle's precept and common reason, but one day, there...

...For it is faulty both hi place and time, the two necessary companions of all corporal actions. For where the stage should always represent but one place, and the uttermost time presupposed in it should be, both by Aristotle's precept and common reason, but one day ; there...

...For it is faulty both in place and time, the two necessary companions of all corporal actions. For where the stage should always represent but one place; and the uttermost time presupposed in it should be, both by Aristotle's precept, and common reason, but one day; there...