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Page 348
... tragedy , reformation of manners ; but the last improperly , only as it begets pity in the audience : though Aristotle , I confess , places tragedies of this kind in the second form . : ' He who undertakes to answer this excellent ...
... tragedy , reformation of manners ; but the last improperly , only as it begets pity in the audience : though Aristotle , I confess , places tragedies of this kind in the second form . : ' He who undertakes to answer this excellent ...
Page 352
... tragedy to move and I believe , upon a true definition of tragedy , it will be found that its work extends farther , and that it is to reform manners , by a de- lightful representation of human life in great persons , by way of dialogue ...
... tragedy to move and I believe , upon a true definition of tragedy , it will be found that its work extends farther , and that it is to reform manners , by a de- lightful representation of human life in great persons , by way of dialogue ...
Page 450
... tragedy , who knows he has judgement , and who feels he has genius , that poet presumes upon his own merit , and scorns to make a cabal . That people come coolly to the representation of such a tragedy , without any violent expectation ...
... tragedy , who knows he has judgement , and who feels he has genius , that poet presumes upon his own merit , and scorns to make a cabal . That people come coolly to the representation of such a tragedy , without any violent expectation ...
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