 | Aristotle - 1815 - 492 pagina’s
...consider tragedy; collecting, first, from what has been already said, its true and essential definition. Tragedy, then, is an imitation of some action that...different parts in the way, not of narration, but of action4'1 — effecting, tlr-/ugh pity and terror, the correction and refinement of such passions44.... | |
 | 1821 - 466 pagina’s
...with Twining's translation of the words in question, and with some extracts from his Notes : — " ' Tragedy, then, is an imitation of some action, that...a proper magnitude ; by language, embellished and Tendered pleasurable, but by different means in different parts — in the way not of narration, but... | |
 | Greeks - 1827 - 1206 pagina’s
...what has been already said, its true and essential definition. Tragedy, then, is an imitation of an action that is important, entire, and of a proper...by different means, in different parts — in the may, not of narration, but of action — effecting, through pily and terror, the correction and refinement... | |
 | Robert Brown - 1877 - 488 pagina’s
...given us a somewhat painfully elaborated definition, according to which it is ' an imitation of an action that is important, entire, and of a proper...by language embellished and rendered pleasurable, [ie, having rhythm, harmony, and melody], in the way of action — effecting, through pity and terror,... | |
 | Robert Brown - 1877 - 520 pagina’s
...given us a somewhat painfully elaborated definition, according to which it is ' an imitation of an action that is important, entire, and of a proper...by language embellished and rendered pleasurable, [ie, having rhythm, harmony, and melody], in the way of action — effecting, through pity and terror,... | |
 | 1878 - 656 pagina’s
...magnitude, bj language embellished and rendered pleasurable, but by different means in different P*ru, in the way not of narration but of action, effecting through pity and terror a correction and refinement of such passions." The obscurity of this interpretation •mi to be owing... | |
 | Arthur Octavius Prickard - 1891 - 196 pagina’s
...Comedy ; and the results are then stated C. 6. for Tragedy in the famous Definition : — " Tragedy is an imitation of some action that is important, entire, and of a proper magnitude, by.latigua.gc embellished rendered- -pleasurable — the- different such passions or tendencies." An... | |
 | Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 478 pagina’s
...consider tragedy, collecting first, from what has been already said, its true and essential definition. Tragedy, then, is an imitation of some action that...rendered pleasurable, but by different means in different parts—in the way, not of narration, but of action, effecting through pity and terror the correction... | |
 | William Leonard Courtney - 1900 - 156 pagina’s
...but disappoints us by the narrowness of his view. You remember the celebrated definition : " Tragedy is an imitation of some action that is important, entire, and of a proper magnitude, in the way not of narrative but of action, effecting, through pity and terror, the purgation of such... | |
 | Charles Sears Baldwin - 1902 - 476 pagina’s
...than the ancient epic or the mediaeval romance. Thus Aristotle's famous definition of tragedy as " an imitation of some action that is important, entire, and of a proper magnitude" ("Ecmi' ovv rpaywBia fj,ifir)<7K Trpafew? O-TTOVBaia<; ical TeXeww, peye6os e^oucr?;?, Chapter vi;... | |
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