 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,...  Shakespeare: Text, Subtext, and Context - Page 79edited by - 1989 - 234 pagesLimited preview - 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 - 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,... | |
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1788 - 628 pages
...therefore said by Aristotle ft be of power by raiting pity and fear, or terror^ to purge the mind of those and such like passions, that is, to temper and reduce...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
...therefore said bv Aristotle to be of power by raising pity and fear, or terror, to purge the mind of those and 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. — Hence philosophers and other gravest... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 418 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...WARTOX, 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 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 540 pages
...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 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
...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. Nor is Nature wanting ¡n her QWTj effects to make good his assertion -. for so, in physick, things of melancholick hue and... | |
 | Aristotle, Thomas Twining - Aesthetics - 1812 - 516 pages
..." 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, stirred up by reading or seeing those " passions well imitated." One thing should be added. Aristotle's... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 270 pages
...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, 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 «wn effects... | |
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