 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 Poetical Works of John Milton - Pagina 2door John Milton - 1852Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | John Milton - 1753 - 356 pagina’s
...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 - 1785 - 360 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | James Plumptre - 1809 - 318 pagina’s
...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,...by reading or seeing those passions well imitated. — Hence philosophers and other gravest writers, as Cicero, Plutarch and others, frequently cite out... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 540 pagina’s
...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,...own effects to make good his assertion : for so, in physick, things of uielancholick hue and quality are used against melancholy, sour, against sour, salt... | |
 | William Hayley - 1810 - 418 pagina’s
...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,...own effects to make good his assertion : for so, in physick, things of melancholick hue and quality are used against melancholy, sour against sour, salt... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 pagina’s
...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,...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 414 pagina’s
...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...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 - 1812 - 516 pagina’s
...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...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 pagina’s
...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,...passions well imitated. Nor is Nature wanting in her «wn effects to make good his assertion: for so, iti physic, things of melancholic hue and quality... | |
 | Robert Mansel - 1814 - 232 pagina’s
...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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