...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...

...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...by reading or seeing those passions well imitated." " One thing," Mr. Twining continues, " should be added. Aristotle's assertion must be considered relatively...

...this passage : — " Tragedy, said by Aristotle to be of power, by raising pity and fetir or terror, to purge the mind of those and such like passions...passions well imitated. Nor is Nature wanting in her own efforts to make good his assertion : for so in physic, things of melancholic hue and quality are used...

...Aristotelic sentence : „ Tragedy is said by Aristotle to be of power by raising pity and fear, or terror, to purge the mind of those and such like passions,...by reading or seeing those passions well imitated." As Milton himself did not intend the drama for the stage, he omitted the division into acts and scenes....

...this passage : — "Tragedy, said by Aristotle to be of power, by raising pity and fejir or terror, to purge the mind of those and such like passions...by reading or seeing those passions well imitated. Xor is Nature wanting in her own efforts to make good his assertion : for so in physic, things of melancholic...

...Aristotelic sentence : flTragedy is said by Aristotle to be of power by raising pity and fear, or terror, to purge the mind of those and such like passions,...to just measure with a kind of delight, stirred up byreading or seeing those passions well imitated." (As Milton himself did not intend the drama for...

...Aristotle to tie of power by raising pity and fear, or terror, to purge the mind of those and suih. 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 well imitated. Nor is Nature, wanting in her own effects...

...paraphrase of Aristotle, ' 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 measure with a kind * Keble's ' Pruelectiones,' iii. t Mill's ' Dissertations and Discussions,' vol. i. 'Poetry and its...

...paraphrase of Aristotle, ' 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 measure with a kind * Keble's ' Prcelectioncs,' iii. t Mill's ' Dissertations and Discussions,' vol. i. ' Toetry and its...

...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, that is, to temper and reduce tltrm to just measure with a kind of delight, stirred up by reading or seeing those passions well imitated....