...the first act to the last, that the stage is only a stage, and that the players are only players. . . The delight of tragedy proceeds from our consciousness...murders and treasons real, they would please no more." — Preface to Shakspeare. 17 \ 26. Ferrau with pleasure heard the Christian Knight, Then both agreed...

...fallacy, it is not that we fancy the players, but that we fancy ourselves unhappy for a moment; but we rather lament the possibility than suppose the presence...from her. The delight of tragedy proceeds from our con-' sciousness of fiction ; if we thought murders and treasons real, they would please no more. Imitations...

...fallacy, it is not that we fancy the players, but that we fancy 25 ourselves, unhappy for a moment; but we rather lament the possibility than suppose the presence...fiction; if we thought murders and treasons real, 30 they would please no more. . . . Voltaire expresses his wonder that our author's extravagances are...

...fallacy, it is not aos that we fancy the players, but we fancy ourselves unhappy for a moment, but we rather lament the possibility than suppose the presence of misery, as a mother weeps over her babe, aio when she remembers that death may take it from her. The deb'ght of tragedy proceeds from our consciousness...

...admitted, has no certain limitations," nay$ " the delight of tragedy proceeds from our con^ sciousness of fiction ; if we thought murders! and treasons real, they would please no more." Since we allow so many impossibilities as regards the place, we may extend at will the time of the...

...fallacy, it is not that we fancy the players, but that we fancy ourselves unhappy for a moment; but we rather lament the possibility than suppose the presence...real, they would please no more. Imitations produce jaain or pleasure, not because they are I mistaken ToTfealities. but because they bring realities to...

...be suffered or to be done. — We rather lament the possibility than suppose the presence of misery. The delight of tragedy proceeds from our consciousness...for realities, but because they bring realities to mind.13) Auch an anderer Stelle") führt er das Vergnügen am Elend in der Tragödie auf die Freude...

...that the stage Initial Lower-Case, 161 is only a stage and the players only players": "the delight proceeds from our consciousness of fiction : if we...thought murders and treasons real they would please us no more." — John Bailey, Dr. Johnson and His Circle, p. 213. The principal cases in which a quoted...

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...fallacy, it is not that we fancy the players, but that we fancy ourselves unhappy for a momfiOL; Tut we rather lament the possibility than suppose the presence...more. Imitations produce pain or pleasure, not because . _they are mistaken for realities, but because they ISTng realities to mind. When the imagination...