 If there be any fallacy, it is not that we fancy the players, but that we fancy ourselves unhappy for a moment; but we rather lament the possibility than suppose the presence of misery, as a mother weeps over her babe when she remembers that death may...  Readings in English Prose of the Eighteenth Century - Pagina 383geredigeerd door - 1911 - 724 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 346 pagina’s
...before us are real evils, but that they are evils to which we ourselves may be exposed. If there be any fallacy, it is not that we fancy the players,...real, they would please no more. Imitations produce pain or pleasure, not because they are mistaken for realities, but because they bring realities to... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 494 pagina’s
...before us are real evils, but that they are evils to which we ourselves may be exposed. If there be any fallacy, it is not that we fancy the players,...real, they .would please no more. Imitations produce pain or pleasure, not because they are mistaken for realities, but because they bring realities to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pagina’s
...before us are real evils, but that they are evils to which we ourselves may be exposed. If there be-any fallacy, it is not that we fancy the players, but...rather lament the possibility than suppose the presence or misery; as a mother weeps over her babe, when she remembers that death may take it from her. In... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1804 - 256 pagina’s
...fancy ourselves unhappy for the moment; but we rather lament the possihility, than suppose the piescnce of misery, as a mother weeps over her babe when she remembers that death may take it from her. The delights of tragedy proceed from our consciousness of fiction ; if we thought murders and treasons... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 pagina’s
...fallacy, it is not that we fancy the players, but that we fancy ourselves unhappy for a moment ; but-we rather lament the possibility than suppose the presence...real, they would please no more. Imitations produce pain or pleasure, not because they are mistaken for realities, but because they bring realities to... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 394 pagina’s
...before us are real evils, but that they are evils to which we ourselves may be exposed. If there be any fallacy, it is not that we fancy the players,...we rather lament the possibility than suppose the prelence of misery, as a mother weeps over her babe, when she remembers that death may take it from... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 390 pagina’s
...before us are real evils, but that they are evils to which we ourselves may be exposed. If there be any fallacy, it is not that we fancy the players,...murders and treasons real, they would please no more. A play read, affects the mind like a play acted. It is therefore evident, that the action is not supposed... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 488 pagina’s
...before us are real evils, but that they are evils to which we ourselves may be exposed. If there be any fallacy, it is not that we fancy the players,...she remembers that death may take it from her. The VOL. «. 14 delight of tragedy proceeds from our consciousness of fiction ; if we thought murders and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 394 pagina’s
...before us are real evils, but that they are evils to which we ourselves may be exposed. If there be any fallacy, it is not that we fancy the players,...that we fancy ourselves unhappy for a moment ; but we rattier lament the possibility than suppose the presence of misery, as a mother weeps over her babe,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 444 pagina’s
...before us are real evils, but that they are evils to which we ourselves may be exposed. If there be any fallacy, it is not that we fancy the players,...real, they would please no more. Imitations produce pain or pleasure, not because they are mistaken for realities, but because they bring realities to... | |
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