 | Books - 1765 - 600 pages
...often prevent them from laughing or crying at all. ' If there be any fallacy, continues our Editor, it is not that we fancy the players, but that we fancy...ourfelves unhappy for a moment; but we rather lament the poflibility than fuppofe the prefence of mifery, as a mother weeps over * This language, is not quite... | |
 | Several Hands - 1765 - 624 pages
...crying at all. * If there be any fallacy, continues our Editor, it is not that we fancy the pl.tyers, but that we fancy ourfelves unhappy for a moment; but we rather lament the poflibility than fuppofe the grefence of mifery, as a mother weeps over * This language is not quiie... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1768 - 676 pages
...fuffer what is there feigned to be fuffered or to be done. The reflection that ftrikes the heart is not, .that the evils before us are real evils, but that...players, but that we fancy ourfelves unhappy for a moment j but we rather lament the poflibility than fup. pofe the prefence of mifery, as a mother weeps over... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1773 - 554 pages
...fuffer what is there feigned to be fuffered or to be done. The reflection that ftrikes the heart is not, that the evils before us are real evils, but that...moment ; but we rather lament the poffibility than fupfe the prefence of mifery, as a mother weeps over ,er babe, when fhe remembers that death may take... | |
 | William Richardson - Tragedy - 1774 - 488 pages
...milla fi fcopre. Gierufalemme lib. canto 16. We are further told, and by the fame authority, that, " if there '* be any fallacy, it is not that we " fancy...poffibility than fuppofe the " prefence of mifery. " Suppofe me therefore at the theatre, with a fcene before me of a heath, and a reprefentation of all... | |
 | William Richardson - Tragedy - 1774 - 262 pages
...nulla fi fcopre. Gierufalemme lib. canto 16. We are further told, and by the fame authority, that, " if there " be any fallacy, it is not that we " fancy...poffibility than fuppofe the " prefence of mifery. " Suppofe me therefore at the theatre, with .a fcene before me of a heath, and a reprefentation of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1774 - 374 pages
...fuffer what is there feigned to be fuffered or to be done. The Reflection that flakes the Heart isnot, that the Evils before us are real Evils, but that...ourfelves may be expofed. If there be any Fallacy, k is not that we fancy the Players, but that we fancy ourfelves unhappy for a Moment; but we rather... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1774 - 412 pages
...real Evils, but that they are Evils to which we ourfelves may be expofed. If there be any Fallacy, k is not that we fancy the Players, but that we fancy...ourfelves unhappy for a Moment; but we rather lament the Pofiibihty,. than fuppofe the Prefence of Mifery ; as a Mother weeps .over her Babe, when fhe remembers... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1774 - 374 pages
...what is there feigned to be fuffered or tr> be done. The Reflection that ftrikes the Heart iť not, that the Evils before us are real Evils, but that, they are Evils to which we oarfekes may be expofed. If there be any Fallacy, k is not that we fancy the Players, but that we fancy... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 504 pages
...offer what is there feigned to be fuffered or to be done. The reflection that ftrikes the heart is not, that the evils before us are real evils, but that...ourfelves unhappy for a moment'; but we rather lament the poflibility than fuppofe the prefence of mifery, as a mother weeps over her babe, when fhe remembers... | |
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It is credited, whenever it moves, as a just picture of a real original ; as representing to the auditor what he would himself feel, if he were to do or suffer what is there feigned to be suffered or to be done. The reflection that strikes the heart is... 
