 | Aristotle, Thomas Twining - Aesthetics - 1812 - 380 pages
...Poem.'] 8 As, go'-ls, goddesses, allegorical beings, &c. t See above, Part II. Sect. 7. p. 129, 130. the action is not seen*. The circumstances, for ....making signs to them, by the motion of his head, not to interfere9. But in the Epic Poem this escapes our notice. Now the wonderful always pleases; as is evident... | |
 | Aristotle, Thomas Twining - Aesthetics - 1812 - 516 pages
...De Rep. lib. iii. p. 393, ed. Serr. p. 1 78, ed. Massey. NOTE 220. P. 182. , BUT EPIC POETRY — - ADMITS EVEN THE IMPROBABLE AND INCREDIBLE, FROM WHICH...SURPRISING RESULTS, BECAUSE, THERE, THE ACTION IS NOT SEEN. Act pm ¿v tv r»tf TfaywJ»«»i irouw го 6«и/л«го»* S' ivir^érou lv rtj IwoTroiia. то... | |
 | Aristotle, Thomas Twining - Aesthetics - 1812 - 508 pages
...178, ed. Massey. . NOTE 220. P. 18^. BUT EPIC POETRY ADMITS EVEN THE IMPROBABLE AND INCREDIBLE, PROM WHICH THE HIGHEST DEGREE OF THE SURPRISING RESULTS, BECAUSE, THERE, THE ACTION IS NOT SEEN. Ao ft.iv xv Iv T3.it; TfayuiTiai? vouiv ro 9<*u/x«rcr $' tvScftirat Iv TV iirtiroiia. ro othoyov,... | |
 | Aristotle - Aesthetics - 1815 - 492 pages
...manners neglected. IV.—.THB surprising is necessary in tragedy*; hut the epic poem goes further, and admits even the improbable and incredible, from...surprising results, because there the action is not seenf*28. The circumstances, for example, of the pursuit of Hector by Achilles, are such as, upon the... | |
 | England - 1832 - 1102 pages
...has been his fate to receive alike from friends and foes. Take Twining's version— which is sense. " The surprising is necessary in Tragedy ; but the Epic...surprising results, because there the action is not seen." What follows it is needless to quote, as Pope's translation gives, generally, i In • sense of the... | |
 | Scotland - 1832 - 1042 pages
...been his fate to receive alike from friends and foes. Take Twining's version — which is sense. " The surprising is necessary in Tragedy ; but the Epic...surprising results, because there the action is not seen." What follows it is needless to quote, as Pope's translation gives, generally, the sense of the original,... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 480 pages
...been his fate to receive alike from friends and foes. Take Twining's version — which is sense. " The surprising is necessary in Tragedy ; but the Epic...surprising results, because there the action is not seen." What follows it is needless to quote, as Pope's translation gives, generally, the sense of the original,... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 480 pages
...been his fate to receive alike from friends and foes. Take Twining's version — which is sense. " The surprising is necessary in Tragedy ; but the Epic...surprising results, because there the action is not seen." What follows it is needless to quote, as Pope's translation gives, generally, the sense of the original,... | |
 | Sir Monier Monier-Williams - Mahābhārata - 1863 - 156 pages
...with tragedy, he observes, "the surprising is necessary in tragedy, but the epic poem goes further, and admits even the improbable and incredible, from...which the highest degree of the surprising results." (III. 4.) restored by Arjuna, and one after another the leaders of the Kuru party are slain. At last... | |
 | Sir Monier Monier-Williams - Hindu philosophy - 1875 - 640 pages
...with tragedy, he observes, ' the surprising is necessary in tragedy, but the epic poem goes further, and admits even the improbable and incredible, from...which the highest degree of the surprising results' (III. 4). 2 Trumpets do not appear to have been used by Homer's heroes. Whence the value of a Stentorian... | |
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The surprising is necessary in Tragedy ; but the Epic Poem goes farther, and admits even the improbable and incredible, from which the highest degree of the surprising results, because there the action is not seen. 
