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" ... 1. The poet, being an imitator, like the painter or any other artist of that kind, must necessarily, when he imitates, have in view one of these three objects : he must represent things, such as they were, or are ; or such as they are said to be,... "
The Theatre of the Greeks: A Series of Papers Relating to the History and ... - Page 35
by John William Donaldson - 1849 - 446 pages
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The Rhetoric, Poetic and Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle, tr. by T. Taylor

Aristoteles - 1811 - 644 pages
...likenesses, it is necessary that he should always imitate one of three things. For he must either imitate things such as they were or are, or such as they are said and appear to be, or such as they ought to be. But these must be enunciated either by [common] diction,...
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Aristotle's Treatise on Poetry, Translated: With Notes on the ..., Volume 1

Aristotle, Thomas Twining - Aesthetics - 1812 - 386 pages
...Ariphradcs, Protagoras, Euclid, &c. and by the puritanical objections of PLATO and his followers. . 1. The Poet, being an imitator, like the painter or...things, such as they were, or are * ;—or such as they arc said to be, and believed to be*,—or, such as they should be*. 2. Again: all this he is to express...
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Aristotle's Treatise on Poetry, Translated: With Notes on the ..., Volume 1

Aristotle, Thomas Twining - Aesthetics - 1812 - 388 pages
...as Ariphrades, Protagoras, Euclid, &c. and by the puritanical objections of PLATO and his followers. 1 . The Poet, being an imitator, like the painter...— he must represent things, such as they were, or are1; — or such as they arc said to be, and believed to be*, — or, such as they should be*. 2....
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Aristotle's Treatise on Poetry, Translated: With Notes on the ..., Volume 1

Aristotle, Thomas Twining - Aesthetics - 1812 - 380 pages
...WHICH THEY ARE TO BE ANSWERED. J\^7"ITH respect to CRITICAL OBJECTIONS1, * and the ANSWERS to them, the number and nature of the different sources, from...understood, if we consider them in the following manner. i. The 1 The original is, Problems. This appears to have been a common title of critical works in Aristotle's...
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The Rhetoric, Poetic, and Nicomachean Ethics: Of Aristotle, Volume 1

Aristotle - Ethics - 1818 - 422 pages
...likenesses, it is necessary that he should always imitate one of three things. For he must either imitate things such as they were or are, or such as they are said and appear to be, or such as they ought to be. But these must be enunciated either by [common] diction,...
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The Rhetoric, Poetic, and Nicomachean Ethics ... Translated from ..., Volume 1

Aristotle - 1818 - 420 pages
...likenesses, it is necessary that he should always imitate one of three things. For he must either imitate things such as they were or are, or such as they are said and appear to be, or such as they ought to be. But these must be enunciated either by [common] diction,...
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The Theatre of the Greeks: A Series of Papers Relating to the History and ...

John William Donaldson - Greek drama - 1836 - 636 pages
...sentiments prevail ; for the manners and the sentiments are only obscured by too splendid a diction. may be drawn will be clearly understood, if we consider...these three objects : he must represent things, such ns they were, or are ; or such as they are said to be, and believed to be ; or suck as they should...
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The Grecian Drama: A Treatise on the Dramatic Literature of the Greeks

John Richard Darley (Bp. of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh) - Greek drama - 1840 - 580 pages
...obscured by too splendid a diction. XXV.— With respect to critical objections, and the answers to them, the number and nature of the different sources from...of these three objects : he must represent things, tuch as they were, or are ; or such as they are said to be, and believed to be ; or such as they should...
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The Poetics of Aristotle, tr. by Twining [ed. by H. Hamilton].

Aristotle - 1851 - 90 pages
...WHICH THEY ARE TO BE ANSWERED. I. — WITH respect to critical objections,(a) and the answers to them, the number and nature of the different sources, from which they may he drawn, will be clearly understood, if we consider them in the following manner. 1. The poet, being...
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Treatise on Rhetoric: Literally Translated from the Greek

Aristotle - 1857 - 532 pages
...necessary that he should always imitate one of the three [objects of imitation]. For he must either imitate things such as they were or are, or such as they are said and appear to be2, or such as they 2. ought to be. But these are enunciated either by [common] diction,...
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