 | Books - 1765 - 600 pages
...of Antony and Cleopatra. Surely he that imagines this may imagine more. He that can take the frage at one time for the palace of the Ptolemies, may take...it in half an hour for the promontory of Actium.' Delufion, if delufion be admitted, has no certain limitation ; "if the fpeihtor can be once perfuaded,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1765 - 80 pages
...of Antony and Cleopatra. Surely he that 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 ASiium. Delufion, if delufion be admitted, has no certain limitation ; if the fpeclator can be once... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1768 - 676 pages
...of Antony and Cleopatra. Surely he that 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 Aftium. Delufion, if delufion be admitted, has no certain limitation j if the fpeftator can be once... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1773 - 554 pages
...of Antony and Cleopatra. Surely he that 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 Actium. Delufion, if delufion be admitted, has no certain limitation ; if the fpectator can be once per.uaded,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1774 - 374 pages
...that his Walk to the Theatre has been a Voyage to Egypt, and that he lives in the Days of Antony and Cleopatra. Surely he that imagines this, may imagine more. He that can take the Stage at tthe Timefct- the Palace of tfce Phlemies, (nay takeU in half an Hour for the Promontory of d&ittm.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1778 - 746 pages
...of Antony and Cleopatra. Surely he that imagines this may 1 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 A<flium. Delujfion, if delufion be admitted, has no certain limita| tion ; if the fpectator can be... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 500 pages
...of Antony and Cleopatra. Surely he that 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 AEfium. Delufion, if delufion be admitted, has no certain limitation ; if the fpe&ator can be once... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 346 pages
...that his walk to the theatre has been a voyage to Egypt, and that he lives in the days of Antony and Cleopatra. Surely he that imagines this may imagine more. He that can take the stage at one "Sine for the palace of the Ptolemies, may take it in half an hour for the promontory of Aclium. Delugion^... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1790 - 1058 pages
...of Antony and Cleopatra. Surely he that 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 Aélium. Delufion, if delufion be admitted, has no certain limitation ; if the fpeftator can be once... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1793 - 860 pages
...of Antony and Cleopatra. Surely he that 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 Actium. Delufion, if delufion be admitted, has no certain limitation ; if the fpeftator can be once perfuaded,... | |
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... 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 to Egypt,... 
