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Definition of Tragics
1. tragic [n] - See also: tragic
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tragics
Literary usage of Tragics
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hermathena by Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland) (1885)
"On the Elision of Words of Pyrrhic Value in the Greek tragics. By ROBERT Y.
TYRRELL, MA, . . . 258 Emendations. By JOHN B. BURY, FTCD, . . .267 On the ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1879)
"It is very likely, that while Plato had before him the literary work, the tragics
were still content with the rhapsodists who, we know, practised their ..."
3. The Journal of Philology by William George Clark, William Aldis Wright, Ingram Bywater, John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor, Henry Jackson (1876)
"The Iliad and the Odyssey are composed throughout on the principle of slight
allusions to incidents, of which the tragics evidently had a full and detailed ..."
4. The Journal of Philology by William George Clark, John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor, William Aldis Wright, Ingram Bywater, Heathcote William Garrod (1876)
"The Iliad and the Odyssey are composed throughout on the principle of slight
allusions to incidents, of which the tragics evidently had a full and detailed ..."
5. The Library of Wit and Humor, Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Literature by Rufus Edmonds Shapley (1892)
"... tragics. Audiences must have it queered into em: and as for a bad cold, why
it's a professional blessing in that line of business, and saves a tragedian ..."
6. The Cyclopædia of Wit and Humor: Containing Choice and Characteristic by William Evans Burton (1859)
"... tual tragics. Audiences must have it queered into 'em ; and as for a bad cold,
why it's a professional blessing in that line of business, ..."