 TRAGEDY, as it was anciently composed, hath been ever held the gravest, moralest, and most profitable of all other poems ; therefore said by Aristotle to be of power, by raising pity and fear, or terror, to purge the mind of those and such like passions,...  Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century ... - Page 207edited by - 1908 - 376 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1707 - 480 pages
...reduce them to juft meafure with a kind of delight, ftirr'd)up by reading or feeing thofe paffions well imitated. Nor is Nature wanting in her own effects to make good hii affertion : for. fo in Phyfick things of melancholick hue and quality are us'd againft melancholy... | |
 | John Milton - 1753 - 356 pages
...reduce them to juft meafure with a kind of delight, ftirr'd up by reading or. feeing thofe paffions well imitated. Nor is Nature wanting in her own effects to make good his afiertion : for fo in phyfic things of melancholic hue and quality are us'd againft melancholy, four... | |
 | John Milton - English poetry - 1785 - 360 pages
...reduce them to juft mcafure with a kind of delight, ftirr'd up by reading or feeing thofe paflions well imitated. Nor is Nature wanting in her own effects to make good his affertion : for fo in phyfic things of melancholic hue and quality are us'd againft melancholy, four... | |
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1788 - 628 pages
...morateit, and most profitable of all ether poems i therefore said by Aristotle ft be of power by raiting pity and fear, or terror^ to purge the mind of those...delight, stirr'd up by reading or seeing those passions ntiett imitated. Nor is Nature ivanting in her own effefis to make good his assertion i for so in physic... | |
 | James Plumptre - Theater - 1809 - 318 pages
...gravest, moralest, and most profitable of all other poems: therefore said bv Aristotle to be of power by raising pity and fear, or terror, to purge the...reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight, stirred up by reading or seeing those passions well imitated. — Hence philosophers and other gravest... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 418 pages
...all other poems : therefore said by Aristotle to be of power by raising pity and fear, or terrour, to purge the mind of those and such like passions,...reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight, stirred up by reading or seeing those passions well imitated. Nor is Nature wanting in her own effects... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 540 pages
...all other poems : therefore said by Aristotle to be of power by raising pity and fear, or terrour, to purge the mind of those and such like passions,...reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight, stirred up by reading or seeing those passions well imitated. Nor is Nature wanting in her own effects... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 414 pages
...all other poems : therefore said' by Aristotle to be of power by raising pity and fear, or terrour, to purge the mind of those and such like passions, that is, to temper and reduce lhem to just measure with a kind of delight, stirred up by reading or seeing those passions well imitated.... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...such like passions, that is, to temper and reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight, stirred up by reading or seeing those passions well imitated. Nor is Nature wanting in her own rffects to make good his assertion : for so, in physic, things of melancholic hue and quality are used... | |
 | Aristotle, Thomas Twining - Aesthetics - 1812 - 516 pages
...moralest, and most ** profitable of all other Poems : therefore said " by Aristotle to- be of power, by raising pity, " and fear or terror, to purge the mind of those w and such like passions ; that is, to temper and " reduce them to just measure, with a kind of " delight,... | |
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