 Time is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious to the imagination; a lapse of years is as easily conceived as a passage of hours. In contemplation we easily contract the time of real actions, and therefore willingly permit it to be contracted when...  The English Cyclopaedia - Side 751866Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 346 sider
...action that happened years after the first, if it be so connected wilh it, that nothing nothing but time can be supposed to intervene ? Time is, of all modes...imagination ; a lapse of years is as easily conceived as a passage of hours. In contemplation we easily contracl the time of real aftions, and therefore willingly... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 624 sider
...an action that happened years after the first, if it be so connected with it, that nothing but time can be supposed to intervene ? Time is, of all modes...imagination ; a lapse of years is as easily conceived as a passage of hours. In contemplation we easily contract the time of real actions, and therefore willingly... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 591 sider
...nothing but time can be supposed to inter, vene ? Time is, of all modes of existence, most obse» quious to the imagination ; a lapse of years is as easily conceived as a passage of hours. In contemplation we easily contract the time of real actions, and therefore willingly... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 494 sider
...an action that happened years after the first ; if it be so connected with it, that nothing but time can be supposed to intervene ? Time is, of all modes...imagination ; a lapse of years is as easily conceived as a passage of hours. In contemplation we easily contract the time of real actions, and therefore willingly... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 sider
...action that happened years after the first, if it be so connected •with it, that nothing but time can be supposed to intervene ? Time is, of all modes...imagination ; a lapse of years is as easily conceived as a passage of hours. In contemplation we easily contract the time of real actions, and therefore willingly... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 394 sider
...an action that happened years after the first ; if it be so connected with it, that nothing but time can be supposed to intervene ? Time is, of all modes...imagination ; a lapse of years is as easily conceived as a passage of hours. In eontem plation we easily contract the time of real actions, and therefore willingly... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 488 sider
...an action that happened years after the first, if it be so connected with it, that nothing but time can be supposed to intervene ? Time is, of all modes...imagination -, a lapse of years is as easily conceived as a passage of hours. In contemplation we easily contract the time of real actions, and therefore willingly... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 394 sider
...an action that happened years after the first; if it be so connected with it, that nothing but time can be supposed to intervene ? Time is, of all modes...imagination; a lapse of years is as easily conceived as a passage of hours. In contemplation we easily contract the time of real action, and therefore willingly... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 390 sider
...an action that happened years after the first; if it be so connected with it, that nothing but time can be supposed to intervene ? Time is, of all modes...imagination; a lapse of years is as easily conceived aa a passage of hours. In contemplation we easily contract the time of real action, and therefore willingly... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 444 sider
...an actiSn that happened years after the first ; if it be so connected with it, that nothing but time can be supposed to intervene. Time is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious to ihe imagination ; a lapse of years is as easily conceived as a passage of hours. In contemplation we... | |
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