 | Aristotle, Thomas Twining - 1812 - 386 pagina’s
...it may be defined to be—a fault or deformity of such a sort-as is neither painful nor destructive. A ridiculous face, for example, is something ugly...authorized by the magistrate, and carried on at the public ex pence : it was, at first, a private and voluntary exhibition. From the time, indeed, when it began... | |
 | Aristotle, Thomas Twining - 1812 - 380 pagina’s
...may be defined to be — a fault or deformity of such a sort as is neither painful nor destructive. A ridiculous face, for example, is something ugly...remain in obscurity. For it was not till late, that vo L. i. I Comedy Comedy was authorized by the magistrate, and carried on at the public expence : it... | |
 | Aristotle - 1815 - 492 pagina’s
...it may be defined3* to be a fault or deformity of such a sort as is neither painful nor destructive. A ridiculous face, for example, is something ugly...successive improvements of tragedy, and the respective author? of them, have not escaped our knowledge; but those of comedy, from the little attention that... | |
 | John Richard Darley (Bp. of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh) - 1840 - 580 pagina’s
...detail would perhaps be a task of some length. •ytXoTov iariv ajuaprijjud rt — KCU ov itiOapriKov). A ridiculous face, for example, is something ugly...obscurity. For it was not till late, that Comedy was authorised by the magistrate, and carried on at the public expense : it was, at first, a private and... | |
 | Aristotle - 1851 - 90 pagina’s
...may be defined tobe(6) — a fault or deformity of such a sort as is neither painful nor destructive. A ridiculous face, for example, is something ugly and distorted, but not so as to cause pain. («) Twining tells us that the trochaic measure is peculiarly adapted to dancing, as it is the same... | |
 | Greeks - 1860 - 904 pagina’s
...painful nor destructive (то yàp yeXoîop «mi' ¿рартгцла TI — «ai où фварпког). A. ridiculous face, for example, is something ugly...its origin, remain in obscurity. For it was not till Lite that Comedy was authorized by the magistrate, and carried on at the public expense : it was, at... | |
 | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - 1874 - 456 pagina’s
...it may be defined to be a. faul/ or deformity of such a sort as is neither painful nor destructive. A ridiculous face, for example, is something ugly and distorted, but not so as to cause pain'. The third and, I think, the most remarkable passage is in his Rhetoric : 'Ewe! 8e TO pav8dveiv Tf r)&v... | |
 | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - 1874 - 444 pagina’s
...it may be defined to be a. fault or deformity of such a sort as is neither painful nor destructive. A ridiculous face, for example, is something ugly and distorted, but not so as to cause pain! The third and, I think, the most remarkable passage is in his Rhetoric : *Ea.fi St TO fiavdavfiv rt flSii... | |
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COMEDY, as was said before, is an imitation of bad characters; bad, not with respect to every sort of vice, but to the RIDICULOUS only, as being a species of turpitude or deformity ; since it may be defined to be — a fault or deformity of such a sort... 