 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,...  Notes and Queries - Página 541871Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | John Milton - 1855 - 644 páginas
...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...measure with a kind of delight, stirred up by reading The beginning is undoubtedly beautiful and proper, opening witk ft graceful abruptness, and proceeding... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 900 páginas
...terror, to purge the mind of those and such like passions; that is, to temper and reduce them to jnst measure with a kind of delight, stirred up by reading or seeing those passions well imitated," Ac. On this Warton makes the following note: — "Milton, who was inclined to puritani*m, had good... | |
 | Jacob Bernays - 1857 - 80 páginas
...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...passions well imitated. Nor is Nature wanting in her own effects to make good his assertion : for so in physic things of melancholic hue and quality are used... | |
 | John Milton - 1857 - 664 páginas
...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...measure with a kind of delight, stirred up by reading 1 The tragedy of " Samson Agonistes" has been celebrated as the second work of the great author of... | |
 | Historisch-Philosophische Gesellschaft, Breslau - 1858 - 356 páginas
...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 melancholic hue... | |
 | John Brown - 1861 - 516 páginas
...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 ;" or, in the words of Charles Lamb, " they dispose the mind to a meditative tenderness." But to return... | |
 | John Brown - 1862 - 360 páginas
...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;" or, in the words of Charles Lamb, "they dispose the mind to a meditative tenderness." "This book (Modern... | |
 | William Purton - 1865 - 176 páginas
...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...by reading or seeing those passions well imitated." " One thing," Mr. Twining continues, " should be added. Aristotle's assertion must be considered relatively... | |
 | 1866 - 376 páginas
...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...passions well imitated. Nor is nature wanting in her own effects to make good his assertion ; for so in physic, things of melancholic hue and quality are used... | |
 | Enaeas Sweetland Dallas - 1866 - 362 páginas
...by 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...by reading or seeing those passions well imitated." He supports this view by an argument from the homoeopathy of the time, which if it is unsound in fact,... | |
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