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" Imitations produce pain or pleasure, not because they are mistaken for realities, but because they bring realities to mind. "
The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent Divines ... - Page 316
by Francis Wrangham - 1816
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A course of lectures on painting, ed. by F. Howard

Henry Howard, Frank Howard - Aesthetics, Comparative - 1848 - 398 pages
...felt than explained. The observation of Johnson, then, is fully justified, " that imitations please, not because they are mistaken for realities, but because they bring realities to mind." A certain modified imitation of natural appearances is only the medium by which our art presents her...
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Memoirs Illustrative of the History and Antiquities of Wiltshire ..., Volume 5

Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland - Salisbury (England) - 1851 - 428 pages
...; it is only to awaken in the mind a lively idea of this object. " Imitations," says Dr. Johnson, " produce pain or pleasure, not because they are mistaken...playing beside us, and such woods waving over us." It is admitted that no one mistakes any such representation for a reality ; it is therefore hard to...
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The Plays & Poems of Shakespeare: Life of Shakespeare. Dr. Johnson's preface ...

William Shakespeare - 1857 - 354 pages
...delight of tragedy proceeds from our consciousness of fiction ; if we thought murders and treasons real, they would please no more. Imitations produce...mistaken for realities, but because they bring realities u> mind. When the imagination is recreated by a puinted hmabcape, the trees are not supposed capable...
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The Plays and Poems of Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - 1878 - 750 pages
...delight of tragedy proceeds from our consciousness of fiction i if we thought murders and treasons real, they would please no more. Imitations produce...the trees are not supposed capable to give us shade, Ixxv or the fountains coolness ; but ire consider, how we should be pleased with such fountains playing...
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The nature of the fine arts

Henry Parker - 1885 - 376 pages
...memory of pleasant hours spent under trees and by the riverside may be revived by the painter's art. " Imitations produce pain or pleasure, not because they...playing beside us, and such woods waving over us." Another kind of explanation is sometimes possible. Mankind are curious to know how celebrated persons...
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The British classical authors: with biographical notices. On the basis of a ...

Ludwig Herrig - English literature - 1906 - 844 pages
...proceeds from our consciousness of fiction; if we thought murders and treasons real, they would SIB please no more. Imitations produce pain or pleasure,...but because they bring realities to mind. When the imagi- aao nation is recreated by a painted landscape, the trees are not supposed capable to give us...
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Stendhal et l'angleterre, Volume 25

Doris Gunnell - Comparative literature - 1909 - 346 pages
...delight of tragedy proceeds from our consciousness of fiction ; if we thought murders and treasons real, they would please no more. Imitations produce...landscape the trees are not supposed capable to give us dans nos cœurs, ce n'est pas d'imaginer que les comédiens sont malheureux, mais bien d'imaginer que...
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Dr. Samuel Johnsons Stellung zu den literarischen Fragen seiner Zeit

Hans Meier - 1916 - 124 pages
...The delight of tragedy proceeds from our consciousness of fiction; if we thought murders and treasons real, they would please no more. Imitations produce...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...
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Common-sense and the Muses

David Graham - Aesthetics - 1925 - 380 pages
...dramatic fable in its materiality was ever credible, or, for a single moment, was ever credited. . . . Imitations produce pain or pleasure, not because they...realities, but because they bring realities to mind" 1 It is probably more satisfactory to see a young man acting Lear than one of eighty. " As you look...
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Johnson on Shakespeare

Samuel Johnson - 1908 - 256 pages
...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 ISTng realities to mind. When the imagination...
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