 Delusion, if delusion be admitted, has no certain limitation; if the spectator can be once persuaded, that his old acquaintance are Alexander and Caesar, that a room illuminated with candles is the plain of Pharsalia, or the bank of Granicus, he is in...  Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare - Page 128edited by - 1903 - 358 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Percy Hazen Houston - 1923 - 346 pages
...limitation; iTtlie?peet»tQiu;an be once persuaded, that his old acquaintance are Alexander and Caesar, that a room illuminated with candles is the plain...despise the circumscriptions of terrestrial nature." So, a mind "wandering in ecstasy" need not count the clock if it is not able to make the stage a field.... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 498 pages
...limitation; if the spectator can be once persuaded, that his old acquaintance are Alexander and Ccesar, that a room illuminated with candles is the plain...nature. There is no reason why a mind thus wandering in extacy should count the clock, or why an hour should not be a century in that calenture of the brains... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1940 - 638 pages
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