 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1790 - 1058 pages
...Alexandria, and the next at Rome, fuppofes, that when the play opens, the fpettator really imagines himfelf at Alexandria ; and believes that his walk to the...imagines this may imagine more. He that can take the ftage at one time for the palace of the Ptolemies, may take it in half an hour for the promontory of... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1793 - 860 pages
...Alexandria, and the next at Rome, fuppofes, that when the play opens, the fpedator really imagines himfelf at Alexandria, and believes that his walk to the theatre...imagines this may imagine more. He that can take the ftage at one time for the palace of the Ptolemies, may take it in half an hour for the promontory of... | |
 | History - 1793 - 620 pages
...Alexandria, and the next at Rome, fuppofes, that when the play opens, the fpectator really imagines himfelf at Alexandria, and believes that his walk to the theatre...voyage to Egypt, and that he lives in the days of Anthony and Cleopatra. Surely he that imagines this, may imagine more. He that can take the ftage at... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1800 - 330 pages
...Alexandria, and the next at Rome, fuppofes, that when the play opens, the fpeilator really imagines himfelf at Alexandria, and believes that his walk to the theatre...imagines this may imagine more. He that can take the (tage at one time for the palace of the Ptolemies, may take it in half an hour for the promontory of... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 624 pages
...time and place. Dr. Johnson's masterly refutation of this argument is as follows : " The objection arising from the impossibility of passing the first...supposes, that when the play opens the spectator really I am almost fearful of illustrating any thing by similitude, lest he should confute it for an argument... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - English prose literature - 1800 - 591 pages
...masterly refutation of this argument is as follows : " The objection arising from the impossibility tif passing the first hour at Alexandria, and the next...supposes, that when the play opens the spectator really I am almost fearful of illustrating any thing by similitude, lest he should confute it for an argument... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 454 pages
...Alexandria, and the next at 'Rome, fuppofes, that when the play opens, the fpectator really imagines himfelf at Alexandria, and believes that his walk to the theatre...imagines this may imagine more. He that can take the ftage at one time for the palace of the Ptolemies, may take it in half an hour for the promontory of... | |
 | History - 1802 - 630 pages
...at Rome, fuppofes, that when the play opens, the ipeftator really imagines himfelf at Aïcxandr'm, and believes that his walk to the theatre has been a voyage to Egjf, and that he lives in the days of Anthony and Cieofalra. Surely he that imagines this, may imagine... | |
 | William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Samuel Johnson - 1803 - 542 pages
...Alexandria, and the next at Rome, fuppofes, that when the play opens, the fpectator really imagines himfelf at Alexandria, and believes that his walk to the theatre...imagines this may imagine more. He that can take the ftage at one time for the palace of the Ptolemies, may take it in half an hour for the promontory of... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1802 - 422 pages
...Alexandria, and the next at Rome, fuppofes, that when the play opens the fpectator really imagines himfelf at Alexandria, and believes that his walk to the theatre...imagines this may imagine more. He that can take the ftage at one time for the palace of the Ptolemies, may take it in half an hour for the promontory of... | |
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The objection arising from the impossibility of passing the first hour at Alexandria, and the next at Rome, supposes that when the play opens, the spectator really imagines himself at Alexandria, and believes that his walk to the theatre has been a voyage... 
