 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1924 - 506 pages
...in action, and its end is a mode of action, not a quality. Now character determines men's qualities, but it is by their actions that they are happy or the reverse . . . the incidents and the plot are the end of a tragedy ; and the end is the chief thing... | |
 | John William Donaldson - Greek drama - 1849 - 642 pages
...in action, and the supreme good itself, the very end of life, is action of a certain kind, — not a quality} . Now the manners of men constitute only...is of course involved. So that the action and the plot are the end of Tragedy ; and in every thing the end is of principal importance. Again — Tragedy... | |
 | Greeks - 1860 - 904 pages
...in action, and the supreme good itself, the very end of life, is action of a certain kind, — not a quality]. Now the manners of men constitute only their...manners; but in the imitation of action, that of manners fuffri, the distinction is not uniformly maintained, and iráSos and ¡.¡.¿От are certainly used... | |
 | Thomas L'Estrange - 1867 - 100 pages
...action of a certain kind — not a quality]. Now the manners of men constitute only their quality of characters ; but it is by their actions that they...happy, or the contrary. Tragedy, therefore, does not imitato action, for the sake of imitating manners ; but in tho —iauti^jff^ o ( action, that otimujnRre-^-'bi'cou:™... | |
 | Samuel Henry Butcher - Aesthetics - 1895 - 418 pages
...life being a mode of action, not a quality. Now the 10 3 characters of men determine their qualities, but it is by their actions that they are happy or the reverse. Dramatic action, therefore, is not with a view to the representation of character: character... | |
 | Aristotle - Aesthetics - 1898 - 144 pages
...action, and its end is a mode of action, not a quality. Now 10 character determines men's qualities, but it is by their actions that they are happy or the reverse. Dramatic action, therefore, is not with a view to the representation of character : character... | |
 | Edward Capps - Greek literature - 1901 - 516 pages
...of action, and its end is a mode of action, not a quality. Now character determines men's qualities, but it is by their actions that they are happy or the reverse. Dramatic action, therefore, is not with a view to the representation of character ; character... | |
 | Frederick Morgan Padelford - Classical education - 1902 - 150 pages
...human life being a mode of action, not a quality. Now the characters of men determine their qualities, but it is by their actions that they are happy or the reverse. Dramatic action, therefore, is not with a view to the representation of character. Character... | |
 | William John Courthope - English poetry - 1903 - 642 pages
...in action, and its end is a mode of action, not a quality. Now character determines men's qualities, but it is by their actions that they are happy or the reverse. Dramatic action therefore is not with a view to the representation of character : character... | |
 | Herbert Samuel Mallory - Book reviewing - 1923 - 558 pages
...in action, and its end is a mode of action, not a quality. Now character determines men's qualities, but it is by their actions that they are happy or the reverse. Dramatic action, therefore, is not with a view to the representation of character : character... | |
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For Tragedy is an imitation, not of men, but of an action and of life, and life consists in action, and its end is a mode of action, not a quality. Now character determines men's qualities, but it is by their actions that they are happy or the reverse. 
