 | Historisch-Philosophische Gesellschaft, Breslau - 1858 - 356 pages
...mind of those and such like passioni, that is to temper and reduce thein tojust measure with a Ioind of delight, stirred up by reading or seeing those passions well imitated. Nor is Nature icaitting in her oicn effeets to make good his nssertion: for so in physic thiags of... | |
 | John Milton - 1861 - 734 pages
...held the gravest, moralest, and most profitable of all other poems: therefore said by Aristotle to l>e of power, by raising pity and fear, or terror, to...by reading or seeing those passions well imitated. Nor is Nature wanting in her own effects to make good his assertion: for so, in physic, things of melancholic... | |
 | John Brown - 1861 - 516 pages
...one great end of poetry and painting. Even when painful and terrible in their subjects, " they are of power, by raising pity and fear or terror, to purge the mind of suchlike passions, — that is, to temper and reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight ;"... | |
 | John Brown - 1862 - 360 pages
...is one great end of poetry and painting. Even when painful and terrible in their subjects, "they are of power, by raising pity and fear or terror , to purge the mind of suchlike passions, — that is, to temper and reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight;"... | |
 | William Purton - 1865 - 176 pages
...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...by reading or seeing those passions well imitated." " One thing," Mr. Twining continues, " should be added. Aristotle's assertion must be considered relatively... | |
 | 1848 - 638 pages
...said it ought always to be — " The gravest, moralest, and most profitable of all poems — being of power, by raising pity, and fear, or terror, to purge the mind of those and such Шее passions." Besides its being inspired, and its having in it so much of the mind and the will... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 708 pages
...his design in writing this tragedy, and the NCUBC of which he hath expressed in the pit-face, that and fear or terror, to purge the mind of those and such like passion*," &c- Tim he exemplifies here in Manoah and the Chorus, aft«r their various agitations of... | |
 | 1866 - 376 pages
...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,...by reading or seeing those passions well imitated. Nor is nature wanting in her own effects to make good his assertion ; for so in physic, things of melancholic... | |
 | John Milton, Edward Phillips - 1868 - 632 pages
...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,...by reading or seeing those passions well imitated. Nor is nature wanting in her own effects to make good his assertion : for so in physic, things of melancholic... | |
 | John Milton - 1870 - 352 pages
...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,...by reading or seeing those passions well imitated. Nor is Nature wanting in her own effects to make good his assertion ; for so in physic things of melancholy... | |
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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,... 
