 | John Milton - 1839 - 496 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 Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...hath been ever held the gravest, morales!, and most profitable of all other poems: therefore said by 4 sueh-like passions, that is, to temper and reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight, stirred... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...hath been ever held the gravest, morales!, and most profitable of all other poems: therefore said' by heir read ing or seeing those passions well imitated. Nor is Nature wanting in her own effects to make good... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 830 pages
...hath been ever held the gravest, moralesi, and most profitable of all other poems: therefore said by by philosophers ; by the country people ; in thc...reflections on a future state. SEE, Winter comes, to rule roading or seeing those passions well imitated. Nor is Nature wanting in her own effects to make good... | |
 | 1845 - 854 pages
...ever held the gravest, moralest, and most profitable of all other poems ; therefore said by Arier^tle to be of power, by raising pity and fear, or terror, to purge the mind of these and such-like passions; t Hut is, to temper and reduce them to just measure, with a kind of delight,... | |
 | Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1845 - 862 pages
...Liiith 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 pui-gu the mind of these and such-liko passions ; that is, to temper and reduce them to jusi measure,... | |
 | American periodicals - 1848 - 636 pages
...Milton nid 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 like passions." Besides its being inspired, and its having in it so much of the mind and the will of the Almighty —... | |
 | Questions and answers - 1871 - 704 pages
...Aristotle to be of power, by raising pity ami feiir or terror, to purge the mind of those and puch like passions — that is, to temper and reduce them...by reading or seeing those passions well imitated. Nor is Nature wanting in her own eiTorts to make good his assertion : for so in physic, things of melancholia... | |
 | John Milton - Authors, English - 1851 - 428 pages
...gravest, moralest, and most profitahle of all other poems ; therefore said hy Aristotle to he of power, hy raising pity and fear, or terror, to purge the mind of those and sueh like passions; that is, to temper and reduee them to just measure with a kind of delight, stirred... | |
 | English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...hath been ever held the gravest, moralest, and most profitable of all other poems : therefore said by * Nor is Nature wanting in her own effects to make good his assertion : for so, in physic, things of... | |
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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,... 
