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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... "
The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text ... - Page ix
by William Shakespeare - 1833 - 1064 pages
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The Dramatick Writings of Will. Shakspere: With the Notes of All ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1788 - 346 pages
...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...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1803 - 494 pages
...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,...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 pages
...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...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1809 - 394 pages
...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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The plays of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustr ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1809 - 390 pages
...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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The Works of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 488 pages
...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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The Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1810 - 444 pages
...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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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and ..., Volume 2

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 486 pages
...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...
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The Works of William Shakespeare: In Nine Volumes, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1810 - 436 pages
...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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The dramatic works of William Shakspeare. Whittingham's ed, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1814 - 532 pages
...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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