 | Aristotle - Literary Collections - 1920 - 100 pages
...worse, however, not as regards any and every sort of fault, but only as regards one particular kind, the Ridiculous, which is a species of the Ugly. The...something ugly and distorted without causing pain. Though the successive changes in Tragedy and their authors are not unknown, we cannot say the same... | |
 | Thomas Dwight Goodell - Athens (Greece) - 1920 - 312 pages
...regards one particular kind, the ridiculous, which is a species of the ugly. The ridiculous may be denned as a mistake or deformity, not productive of pain...something ugly and distorted without causing pain. "Though the successive changes in tragedy and their authors are not unknown, we cannot say the same... | |
 | Thomas Dwight Goodell - Athens (Greece) - 1920 - 308 pages
...worse, however, not as regards any and every sort of fault, but only as regards one particular kind, the ridiculous, which is a species of the ugly. The ridiculous may be denned as a mistake or deformity, not productive of pain or harm to others; the mask, for instance,... | |
 | Comedy - 1950 - 614 pages
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 | John Dewar Denniston - Criticism - 1924 - 276 pages
...worse, however, not as regards any and every sort of fault, but only as regards one particular kind, the Ridiculous, which is a species of the Ugly. The...something ugly and distorted without causing pain. I. BYWATER. Definition of Tragedy : its Parts POETICS cap. 6-9. Reserving hexameter poetry and Comedy... | |
 | J. C. Gregory - Emotions - 1924 - 264 pages
...worse, however, not as regards any and every sort of fault, but only as regards one particular kind, the Ridiculous, which is a species of the Ugly. The Ridiculous may be defined as a mistake or a deformity not productive of pain or harm to others ; the mask, for instance, that excites laughter,... | |
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As for Comedy, it is (as has been observed) an imitation of men worse than the average ; worse, however, not as regards any and every sort of fault, but only as regards one particular kind, the Ridiculous, which is a species of the Ugly. The Ridiculous... 
