 | Aristotle, Thomas Twining - Aesthetics - 1812 - 508 pages
...ca" dere in tai mali, e, conseguentemente, non ne " nasce timore in loro." p. 194. NOTE 96. P. 136. NOR YET INVOLVED IN MISFORTUNE BY DELIBERATE VICE, OR VILLANY ; BUT BY SOME ERROR OF HUMAN FRAILY. Mrtn fiat xaxia» x«ij^o^fi»ifi«t /*»T«|3«XAui/ flf TTJ» V, K*.\«. $C «fi«fTi«»... | |
 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 446 pages
...subject may be pleasing from its moral tendency, it will produce neither pity nor terror; for our pity is excited by misfortunes undeservedly suffered, and...sufferer and ourselves ; neither of these effects would therefore be produced by such an event."* Mr. Mason remarks, " that something which unites the... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant, Robert Charles Sands, Henry J. Anderson - American periodicals - 1825 - 502 pages
...may be pleasing, from its moral tendency, it will produce neither pity nor terror. For our pity is excited by misfortunes undeservedly suffered, and...will, therefore, be produced by such an event.'*' Having premised these principles, let us now examine the successes and failures of Euripides in this... | |
 | Greeks - 1827 - 1206 pages
...subject may be pleasing from its moral tendency, it will produce neither pity nor terror. For our pity is excited by misfortunes undeservedly suffered, and...some resemblance between the sufferer and ourselves. There remains then for our choice the character between these extremes ; that of a person neither eminently... | |
 | Samuel Parr, John Johnstone - 1828 - 734 pages
...subject may be pleasing from its moral tendency, it will produce neither pity nor terror, for our pity is excited by misfortunes undeservedly suffered, and...nor yet involved in misfortune by deliberate vice or villainy, but by some error of human frailty, and this person should also be some one of high fame... | |
 | Samuel Parr, John Johnstone - 1828 - 738 pages
...subject may be pleasing from its moral tendency, it will produce neither pity nor terror, for our pity is excited by misfortunes undeservedly suffered, and...then, for our choice, the character between these ex tremes, that of a person neither eminently virtuous or just, nor yet involved in misfortune by deliberate... | |
 | Philip Wentworth Buckham - Greek drama - 1830 - 628 pages
...subject may be pleasing from its moral tendency, it will produce neither pity nor terror. For our pity is excited by misfortunes undeservedly suffered, and...some resemblance between the sufferer and ourselves. There remains then for our choice the character between these extremes ; that of a person neither eminently... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1835 - 342 pages
...may be pleasing from its moral tendency, it will produce neither pity nor terror ; for our pity is excited by misfortunes undeservedly suffered, and...sufferer and ourselves ; neither of these effects would therefore be produced by such an event." * * See Twining's Translation of Aristotle's Poetics,... | |
 | John William Donaldson - Greek drama - 1849 - 642 pages
...subject may be pleasing from its moral tendency, it will produce neither pity nor terror [for our pity is excited by misfortunes undeservedly suffered, and...virtuous or just, nor yet involved in misfortune by reason of deliberate vice or villany, but from some error of human frailty ; and this person should... | |
 | Greeks - 1860 - 904 pages
...subject may be pleasing from its moral tendency, it will produce neither pity nor terror [for our pity is excited by misfortunes undeservedly suffered, and...resemblance between the sufferer and ourselves]. Neither of theae effects will, therefore, be produced by such an event. There remains, then, for our choice, the... | |
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Nor, again, should the fall of a very bad man from prosperous to adverse fortune be represented : because, though such a subject may be pleasing from its moral tendency, it will produce neither pity nor terror. For our pity is excited by misfortunes undeservedly... 
