 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 376 pages
...at Alexandria, cannot suppose that he sees the next at Rome, at a distance to which not the dragons of Medea could, in so short a time, have transported...he knows that place cannot change itself; that what was a house cannot become a plain ; that what was Thebes can never be Persepolis. Such is the triumphant... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 390 pages
...at Alexandria, cannot suppose that he sees the next at Home, at a distance to which not the dragons of Medea could,, in so short a time, have transported...he knows that place cannot change itself; that what was a house cannot become a. plain; that what was Tiiebes can never be Persepolis. Such is the triumphant... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 488 pages
...at Alexandria, cannot suppose that he sees the next at Rome, at a distance to which not the dragons of Medea could, in so short a time, have transported...knows that place cannot change itself ; that what was a house can not become a plain ; that what was Thebes can never be Persepotis. Such is the triumphant... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 394 pages
...at Alexandria, cannot suppose that he sees the next at Rome, at a distance to which not the dragons of Medea could, in so short a time, have transported...he knows that place cannot change itself; that what was a house cannot become a plain; that what was Thebes can never be Persepolis. Such is the triumphant... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 444 pages
...at Alexandria, cannot suppose that he sees the next at Rome, at a distance to which not the dragons of Medea could, in so short a time, have transported...knows that place cannot change itself ; that what was a house cannot become a plain ; that what was Thebes can never be Persepolis. Such is the triumphant... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 486 pages
...at Alexandria, cannot suppose that he sees the next at Rome, at a distance to which not the dragons of Medea could, in so short a time, have transported...he knows that place cannot change itself; that what was a house cannot become a plain; that what was Thebes can never be Persepolis. Such is the triumphant... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1811 - 510 pages
...at Alexandria, cannot suppose that he sees the next at Rome, at a distance to which not the dragons of Medea could, in so short a time, have transported...he knows that place cannot change itself; that what was a house cannot become a plain ; that what was Thebes can never be Pcrscpolis. Such is the triumphant... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 436 pages
...at Alexandria, cannot suppose that he sees the next at Rome, at a distance to which not the dragons of Medea could, in so short a time, have transported...knows that place cannot change itself ; that what was a house cannot become a plain ; that what was Thebes can never be Persepolis. Such is the triumphant... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1814 - 532 pages
...he sees the next at Rome, at a dis'ance to which not the dragons of Medea could, in so short a nme, have transported him; he knows with certainty that...he knows that place cannot change itself; that what was a house cannot become a plain ; that what was lliebes can never be Persepolis. Such is the trinmphant... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 492 pages
...at Alexandria, cannot suppose that he sees the next at Rome, at a distance to which not the dragons of Medea could, in so short a time, have transported...he knows that place cannot change itself; that what was a house cannot become a plain; that what was Thebes can never be Persepolis. Sucbis the triumphant... | |
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From the narrow limitation of time necessarily arises the contraction of place. The spectator who knows that he saw the first act at Alexandria cannot suppose that he... 
