 We find that Good and Evil happen alike to all Men on this Side the Grave; and as the principal Design of Tragedy is to raise Commiseration and Terror in the Minds of the Audience, we shall defeat this great End, if we always make Virtue and Innocence...  Clarissa; or, The history of a young lady - Pagina 398door Samuel Richardson - 1820Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | William John Courthope - 1884 - 202 pagina’s
...justice is an essential element in tragedy. " We find," says he, " that good and evil happen alike to all men on this side the grave ; and, as the principal...tragedy is to raise commiseration and terror in the 1 Spectator, No. 40. Y. minds of the audience, we shall defeat this great end if •we always make... | |
 | B. D. Turner - 1893 - 452 pagina’s
...his fastidiousness fades into fatuity. — RusKiN CCCXXXII We find that good and evil happen alike to all men on this side the grave ; and as the principal...Tragedy is to raise commiseration and terror in the mind of the audience, we shall defeat this great end if we always make virtue and innocence happy and... | |
 | Alfred Ainger - 1895 - 654 pagina’s
...says he, "that good and evil happen alike to all men on this side the grave ; and, as the principle design of tragedy is to raise commiseration and terror...always make virtue and innocence happy and successful. . . . The ancient writers of tragedy treated men in their plays as they are dealt with in the world,... | |
 | George Atherton Aitken - 1898 - 490 pagina’s
...reason, or in the practice of the ancients. Wefind.that gpod,jind, evil happen alike to i alLmen .onTthis -side the grave ; and as the principal design of tragedy is to raise commisgralion^anii terror in the minds of the audience^weshall defeat ,^-thls=*g?eat end, if we_ always... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1905 - 442 pagina’s
...nature, in 1o reason, or in the practice of the Ancients. We find that good and evil happen alike to all men on this side the grave ; and as the principal...end, if we always make virtue and innocence happy and 15 successful. Whatever crosses and disappointments a good man suffers in the body of the Tragedy,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1905 - 420 pagina’s
...in nature, in reason, or in the practice of the Ancients. We find that good and evil happen alike to all men on this side the grave ; and as the principal design of Tragedy is to raise corrimiseration_ and tefrot-in-.the minds of the audience,,we shall defeat this great end, if we always... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1906 - 414 pagina’s
...15 nature, in reason, or in the practice of the ancients. We find that good and evil happen alike to all men on this side the grave; and as the principal...in the minds of the audience, we shall defeat this 20 great end, if we always make virtue and innocence happy and successful. Whatever crosses and disappointments... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 752 pagina’s
...happen alike to all men on this side the grave; and as design of tragedy is to raise commiseration jijid terror in the minds of the audience, we shall defeat...this great end if we always make virtue and innocence liappy and successful. Whatever crosses and disappointments a good man suffers in the body of the tragedy,... | |
 | Henry Charles Shelley - 1914 - 360 pagina’s
...not the authority of a successful dramatist to enforce his theories, Addison had laid it down that " as the principal design of tragedy is to raise commiseration...always make virtue and innocence happy and successful." In the same issue of the Spectator the essayist cited the authority of Aristotle, who, he said, had... | |
 | William Winter - 1915 - 804 pagina’s
...in Nature, in Reason, or in the Practice of the Ancients. We find that Good and Evil happen alike to all men on this side the grave: and as the principal...always make Virtue and Innocence happy and successful. . . . 'King Lear' is an admirable tragedy, ... as Shakespeare wrote it; but as it is reformed according... | |
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