 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
 | Samuel Johnson, George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1888 - 356 pages
...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...nature. There is no reason why a mind thus wandering in ecstacy should count the clock, or why an hour should not be a century in that calenture of the brain... | |
 | James Mercer Garnett - English literature - 1890 - 730 pages
...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...nature. There is no reason why a mind thus wandering in ecstacy should count the clock, or why an hour should not be a century in that calenture of the brain... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1898 - 460 pages
...limitation ; if the spectator can be once persuaded that his old acquaintance are Alexander and Ctzsar, that a room illuminated with candles is the plain of Pharsalia, or the bank of Granicus, be is in a state of elevation above the reach of reason, or of truth, and, from the heights of empyrean... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1898 - 462 pages
...limitation ; if the spectator can be once persuaded that his old acquaintance are Alexander and Casar, that a room illuminated with candles is the plain of Pharsalia, or the bank of Granicui, he is in a state of elevation above the reach of reason, or of truth, and, from the heights... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - Digital images - 1905 - 422 pages
...limitation; if the spectator can be once persuaded that his old acquaintance are Alexander and Cffisar, that a room illuminated with candles is the plain...Pharsalia or the bank of Granicus, he is in a state of elevaSOtion above the reach of reason or of truth, and from the heights of empyrean poetry may despise... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - Digital images - 1905 - 426 pages
...persuaded that his old acquaintance are Alexander and Caesar, that a room illuminated with candles is ttie plain of Pharsalia or the bank of Granicus, he is in a state of eleva20 tion above the reach of reason or of truth, and from the heights of empyrean poetry may despise... | |
 | Beverley Ellison Warner - Drama - 1906 - 328 pages
...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...nature. There is no reason why a mind thus wandering in ecstacy should count the clock, or why an hour should not be a century in that calenture of the brains... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - English literature - 1906 - 844 pages
...limitation; if the spec- 126 tator 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 iso is in a state of elevation above the reach of reason, or of truth, and from the heights of empyrean... | |
 | Stendhal - Romanticism - 1907 - 254 pages
...persuaded that his old acquaintances are Alexander and Caesar, that a room illuminated with candies is the plain of Pharsalia, or the bank of Granicus,...from the heights of empyrean poetry may despise the circumspection of terrestrial nature. . . . The truth is that the spectators are always in theilf senses,... | |
 | Stendhal - Romanticism - 1907 - 258 pages
...limitation ; if the spectator can be once persuaded that his old acquaintances are Alexander and Caesar, that a room illuminated with candles is the plain of Pharsalia, or the bank of (iraniens, he is in a state of elevation above the reach of reason, or of truth, and from the heights... | |
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