 | Rolfe Arnold Scott-James - Criticism - 1928 - 406 pages
...contrivances. Even to Aristotle he refuses to render slavish homage. " It is not enough that Aristotle has said so, for Aristotle drew his models of tragedy...if he had seen ours, might have changed his mind." That, in the seventeenth century, was a revolutionary saying. Thus to question the authority of the... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1928 - 108 pages
...to Rymer's first book he had therefore jotted down this remark: 'Tis not enough that Aristotle has said so, for Aristotle drew his models of tragedy...; and if he had seen ours, might have changed his mind.1 The greater critics of this time agree with Dryden about the rules. 'There is more beauty',... | |
 | Aristotle - History - 1968 - 108 pages
...which he could have made without reading a word of the Poetics: It is not enough that Aristotle has said so; for Aristotle drew his models of tragedy...if he had seen ours, might have changed his mind. Johnson himself was by temperament an Aristotelian; he had an encyclopedic and at the same time truly... | |
 | Thora Burnley Jones, Bernard De Bear Nicol - Literary Criticism - 1976 - 200 pages
...tragedy? It will be recalled that Corneille asked the same question:8 Tis not enough that Aristotle has said so, for Aristotle drew his models of tragedy...changed his mind. And chiefly we have to say (what I hinted on pity and terror in the last paragraph save one) that the punishment of vice and reward... | |
 | Deborah Payne Fisk - Drama - 2000 - 326 pages
...the tragic emotions between two characters or sets of characters: And chiefly we have to say (what I hinted on Pity and Terror in the last Paragraph save...are the most Adequate ends of Tragedy, because most conducting to good Example of Life; now Pity is not so easily rais'd for a Criminal (as the Ancient... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 2003 - 1024 pages
...are either the prime, or at least the only ends of tragedy. 40. 'Tis not enough that Aristotle has said so, for Aristotle drew his models of tragedy...if he had seen ours, might have changed his mind. 41. And chiefly we have to say (what I hinted on pity and terror in the last paragraph save one) that... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1821 - 474 pages
...only ends of tragedy. " 'Tis not enough that Aristotle had said so ; for, Aristotle drew his niodels of tragedy from Sophocles and Euripides ; and, if...changed his mind. And chiefly we have to say (what I hinted on pity and terror, in the last paragraph save one), that the punishment of vice and reward... | |
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Tis not enough that Aristotle has said so, for Aristotle drew his models of tragedy from Sophocles and Euripides ; and, if he had seen ours, might have changed his mind. 
