 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
 | Robert Mansel - 1814 - 230 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 passions well imitated. Hence philosophers and 56 other grave writers,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 356 pagina’s
...mind of those and such like passions, tint is, to temper and reduce them to just measure with a krnd of delight, stirred up by reading or seeing those...passions well imitated. Nor is Nature wanting in her own cflVcts to make good his assertion : for so, in physic, things of melancholic hue and quality arc used... | |
 | 1821 - 468 pagina’s
...and fear, от terror, to purge the mind of those and such-like passions; that is, to temper and to reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight, stirred up by reading or seeing those passions wellimitated.' It is evident from Aristotle's words that pity and terror are to be both the means and... | |
 | 1821 - 466 pagina’s
...and fear, or terror, to purge the mind of those and such-like passions ; that is, to temper and to reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight, stirred up by reading or seeing those passions wellimitated.' It is evident from Aristotle's words that pity and terror are to be both the means and... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 272 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,...salt humours. Hence philosophers and other gravest VOL. III. B writers, as Cicero, Plutarch, and others, frequently cite out of tragic poets, both to... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 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,...wanting in her own effects to make good his assertion : z for 1 Of that sort of dramatick poem, called Tragedy.] Milton, who was inclined to Puritanism,... | |
 | 1828 - 740 pagina’s
...raising pity, anil fear, or terror, to purge the mind of those and similar 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 grave writers, as Cicero, Plutarch, and others, frequently cite out of... | |
 | Aeschylus - 1831 - 332 pagina’s
...raising pity and fear, or terror, to purge the mind of these 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. * After alluding, in II Penseroso, to the pensive grandeur of Ancient Tragedy, he adds, " Hence philosophers,... | |
 | Aeschylus - 1831 - 352 pagina’s
...raising pity and fear, or terror, to purge the mind of these 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. * After alluding, in II Penseroso, to the pensive grandeur of Ancient Tragedy, he adds, And what tho'... | |
 | Aeschylus - 1833 - 394 pagina’s
...raising pity and fear, or terror, to purge the mind of these 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... | |
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