 The delight of tragedy proceeds from our consciousness of fiction ; if we thought murders and treasons real, they would please no more. Imitations produce pain or pleasure, not because they are mistaken for realities, but because they bring realities...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 2371844Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 346 pages
...remembers that death may take it from her. The delight of tragedy proceeds from our consciousness of fiction ; if we thought murders and treasons real,...realities, but because they bring realities to mind. When the imagination is recreated by a painted landscape, the trees are not supposed capable to give... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 494 pages
...remembers that death may take it from her. The delight of tragedy proceeds from our consciousness of fiction ; if we thought murders and treasons real,...realities, but because they bring realities to mind. When the imagination is recreated by a painted landscape, the trees are not supposed capable to give... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1804 - 256 pages
...remembers that death may take it from her. The delights of tragedy proceed from our consciousness of fiction ; if we thought murders and treasons real, they would please no more. " Whether Shakespeare knew the unities, and rejected them by design, or deviated from them by happy... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...that death may take it from her. In short, the delight of tragedy proceeds from our consciousness of fiction ; if we thought murders and treasons real, they would please no more. Preface to Shakspeare, p. 114, V. VANITY. THOSE whom their virtue restrains from deceiving others,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 376 pages
...remembers that death may take it from her. The delight of tragedy proceeds from our consciousness of fiction ; if we thought murders and treasons real,...realities, but because they bring realities to mind. When the imagination is recreated by a painted landscape, the trees are not supposed capable to give... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 394 pages
...remembers that death may take it from her. The delight of tragedy proceeds from our consciousness of fiction ; if we thought murders and treasons real, they would please no more. . i Imitations produce pain or pleasure, not because they are mistaken for realities, but because they... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 394 pages
...remembers that death may take it from her. The delight of tragedy proceeds from our consciousness of fiction; if we thought murders and treasons real,...realities, but because they bring realities to mind. When the imagination is recreated by a painted landscape, the trees are not supposed capable to give... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 488 pages
...that death may take it from her. The VOL. «. 14 delight of tragedy proceeds from our consciousness of fiction ; if we thought murders and treasons real,...mistaken for realities, but because they bring realities *o mind. When the imagination is recreated by a painted landscape, the trees are not supposed capable... | |
 | 1809 - 878 pages
...not be mentioned, declares, that " the delight of tragedy proI ^ ceeds from our consciousness of the fiction ; if we thought murders and treasons real, they would please no more." Poems and novels may be cited in confirmation of the commentator's, and in opposition to the , biographer's... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 390 pages
...remembers that death may take it from her. The delight of tragedy proceeds from our consciousness of fiction; if we thought 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... | |
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