 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 346 页
...first Athens, and then Sicily, which was always known to be neither Sicily nor Athens, but a moderate theatre. By supposition, as place is introduced, time...act, preparations for war against Mithridates are represented to be made in Rome, the event of the war may, without absurdity, be represented, in the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 494 页
...very remote from each other ; and where is the absurdity of allowing that space to represent first Athens, and then Sicily, which was always known to...If, in the first Act, preparations for war against Mithridatcs are represented to be made in Rome, the event of the war may, without absurdity, be represented,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 页
...places very remote from each other; and where is the absurdity of allowing that space to represent first Athens, and then Sicily, which was always known to...so much of the action as is represented, the real vand poetical duration is the same. If, in the first act, preparations for war against Mithridates... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 394 页
...places very remote from each other; and where is the absurdity of allowing that space to represent first Athens, and then Sicily, which was always known to...Act, preparations for war against Mithridates are represented to be made in Rome, the event of the war may, without absurdity, be represented, in the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 390 页
...places very remote from each other; and where is the absurdity of allowing that space to represent first Athens, and then Sicily, which was always known to...Act, preparations for war against Mithridates are represented to be made in Rome, the event of the war may, without absurdity, be represented, in the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 488 页
...very remote from each other ; and where is the absurdity of allowing that space to represent first Athens, and then Sicily, which was always known to...act, preparations for war against Mithridates are represented to be made in Rome, the event of the war may, without absurdity, be represented, in the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 444 页
...very remote from each other ; and where is the absurdity of allowing that space to represent first Athens, and then Sicily, which was always known to...act, preparations for war against Mithridates are represented to be made in Rome, the event of the war may, without absurdity, be represented, in the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 486 页
...places very remote from each other; and where is the absurdity of allowing that space to represent first Athens, and then Sicily, which was always known to...If, in the first act, preparations for war against Milhridates are represented to be made in Rome, the event of the war may, •without absurdity, be... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 436 页
...very remote from each other ; and where is the absurdity of allowing that space to represent first Athens, and then Sicily, which was always known to...act, preparations for war against Mithridates are represented to be made in Rome, the event of the war may, without absurdity, be represented, in the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1814 - 532 页
...places very remote from each other: and where is the absurdity of allowing that space to represent first Athens, and then Sicily, which was always known to...act, preparations for war against Mithridates are represented to be made in Rome, the event of the war may, without absurdity, be represented, in the... | |
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By supposition, as place is introduced, time may be extended ; the time required by the fable elapses for the most part between the acts ; for, of so much of the action as is represented, the real and poetical duration is the same. If in the first act... 
