 | John Milton - 1826 - 540 pages
...all other poems : therefore said by Aristotle to be of power by raising pity and fear, or terrour, to purge the mind of those and such like passions,...by reading or seeing those passions well imitated. Nor is Nature wanting in her own effects to make good his assertion : z for 1 Of that sort of dramatick... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 360 pages
...all other poems : therefore said by Aristotle to be of power by raising pity and fear, or terrour, to purge the mind of those and such like passions,...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 Aikin - English poetry - 1826 - 840 pages
...terrour, to purge the mind of those and such like passions, them to just that is, to temper and reduce measure with a kind of delight, stirred up 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... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1828 - 740 pages
...to [May, be of power by raising pity, anil fear, or terror, to purge the mind of those and similar passions, that is, to temper and reduce them to just...passions well imitated. Hence philosophers and other grave writers, as Cicero, Plutarch, and others, frequently cite out of tragic poets, both to adorn... | |
 | English essays - 1828 - 718 pages
...most moral, and most profitable of all other poems, and therefore it is said by Aristotle to [May, be of power by raising pity, and fear, or terror, to purge the mind of those and similar pussions, that is, to temper and reduce them to just measure, with a kind of delight, stirred... | |
 | John Pickering - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1829 - 936 pages
...Tragedy is said by Aristotle ** to be of power br raising pity and fear or terror, to purge the minds of those and such like passions, that is, to temper and reduce them to jufi measure, with a kind of de%bt, by seeing those passions weil imitated." Л/г Taylor, in kit Translation... | |
 | Aeschylus - Greek drama - 1831 - 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, 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,... | |
 | Aeschylus - 1831 - 332 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, 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,... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 354 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... | |
 | Aeschylus - Greek drama - 1833 - 394 pages
...hath been ever held the gravest, moralest, and most profitable of all other poeais; therefore said by Aristotle to be of power, by 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,... | |
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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,... 
