 | 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... | |
 | Aristotle, Thomas Twining - Aesthetics - 1812 - 388 pages
...in action, and the supreme good itself, the very end of life, is action of a certain kind5 — not quality. Now the manners of men constitute only their...is of course involved. So that the action and the fable are the end of Tragedy ; and in every thing the end is of principal importance. Again — Tragedy... | |
 | Aristotle, Thomas Twining - Aesthetics - 1812 - 380 pages
...supreme good itself, the very end of life, is action of a certain kind5 — not quality. Now the J manners of men constitute only their quality or characters...is of course involved. So that the action and the fable are the end of Tragedy ; and in every thing the end is of principal importance. Again — Tragedy... | |
 | Aristotle - Aesthetics - 1815 - 492 pages
...and the supreme good itself, the very end of life, is action of a certain kind* — not quality50. Now the manners of men constitute only their quality...is of course involved. So that the action and the fable are the end of tragedy; and in every thing the end is of principal importance. Again — Tragedy... | |
 | Greeks - 1827 - 1206 pages
...tragedy is an imitation, not of mew, but of actions-)-, — of life, of happiness, and unhappiness. Now the manners of men constitute only their quality...is of course involved. So that the action and the fable are the end of tragedy ; and in every thing the end is of principal importance. Again — Tragedy... | |
 | Philip Wentworth Buckham - Greek drama - 1830 - 628 pages
...because tragedy is an imitation, not of men, but of actions*, — of life, of happiness, and unhappiness. Now the manners of men constitute only their quality...is of course involved. So that the action and the fable are the end of tragedy ; and in every thing the end is of principal importance. Again — Tragedy... | |
 | John William Donaldson - Greek drama - 1836 - 636 pages
...in action, and the supreme good itself, the very end of life, is action of a certain kind, — not quality. Now the manners of men constitute only their...is of course involved. So that the action and the fable are the end of Tragedy ; and in every thing the end is of principal importance. Again — Tragedy... | |
 | John Richard Darley (Bp. of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh) - Greek drama - 1840 - 580 pages
...in action, and the supreme good itself, the very end of life, is action of a certain kind, — not quality. Now the manners of men constitute only their...is of course involved. So that the action and the fable are the end of Tragedy ; and in every thing the end is of principal importance. expression of... | |
 | Aristotle - 1851 - 90 pages
...men, and their actions, characters, &c. [T.] very end of life, is action of a certain kind — not quality. Now the manners of men constitute only their...is of course involved. So that the action and the fable are the end of Tragedy ; and in every thing the end is of principal importance. Again — Tragedy... | |
 | Greeks - 1860 - 904 pages
...combination of incidents, or the plot : because Tragedy is an imitation, not of men, but of actions^of life and of happiness : even unhappiness consists...manners; but in the imitation of action, that of manners fuffri, the distinction is not uniformly maintained, and iráSos and ¡.¡.¿От are certainly used... | |
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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. 
