 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,...  The Life of John Milton: 1660-2674 - Page 664de David Masson - 1880Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | John Bell - 1788 - 630 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 and such like passions, that is, to temper and reduce them to just measure 'with a kind of delight, stirr'd... | |
 | James Plumptre - 1809 - 318 pages
...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 mind of those and such like passions ; that is, to temper and reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight, stirred... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 pages
...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...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... | |
 | William Hayley - 1810 - 418 pages
...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...by reading or seeing those passions well imitated. Nor is Nature wanting in her own effects to make good his assertion : for so, in physick, things of... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 540 pages
...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...by reading or seeing those passions well imitated. Nor is Nature wanting in her own effects to make good his assertion : for so, in physick, things of... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 414 pages
...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. Nor is Nature wanting ¡n her QWTj effects to make good his assertion -. for so, in physick, things... | |
 | Aristotle, Thomas Twining - 1812 - 516 pages
...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...reading or seeing those " passions well imitated." One thing should be added. Aristotle's assertion must be considered relatively to his own times, and... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 270 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 and such like passions, that is, to temper and reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight, stirred... | |
 | Robert Mansel - 1814 - 230 pages
...ARISTOTLE to be of power, by raising piety 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 the reading, or SEEING those passions well imitated. Hence philosophers and 56 other grave writers,... | |
 | Robert Mansel - 1814 - 232 pages
...ARISTOTLE to be of power, by raising piety 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 the reading, or SEEING those passion» well imitated. Hence philosophers add other grave writers, as... | |
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