 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: Edited, with Memoir, Introductions, Notes ... - Page 91by John Milton - 1903Full view - 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 - 1753 - 356 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 his afiertion : for fo in phyfic things of melancholic hue and quality are us'd againft melancholy, four... | |
 | John Milton - 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, four... | |
 | John Bell - 1788 - 628 pages
...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 up by reading or seeing those passions ntiett imitated. Nor is Nature ivanting in her own effefis... | |
 | James Plumptre - 1809 - 318 pages
...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...by reading or seeing those passions well imitated. — Hence philosophers and other gravest writers, as Cicero, Plutarch and others, frequently cite out... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | 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...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 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...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 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... | |
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