 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 terrour, to purge the mind of those and such like passions,...  The Retrospective Review - Página 2971826Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1890 - 466 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...well imitated. Nor is Nature ' wanting in her own effecte to make good his assertion ; for so, in ' physic, changes of melancholy hue and quality are... | |
 | Lewis Campbell - 1891 - 376 páginas
...Aristotle to be of power, by raising pity and fear, or terror, to purge the mind of those and suchlike passions, that is, to temper and reduce them to just...by reading or seeing those passions well imitated." Aristotle's pregnant saying, however, is not only extremely condensed, but so oracular, that every... | |
 | Arthur Octavius Prickard - 1891 - 196 páginas
...pity and fear, or terrour, to purge the mind of those and such-like passions ; that is, to temper or reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight, stirred up by reading or seeing those passages \__well imitated. Nor is Nature herself wanting in her own efforts to make good his assertion... | |
 | Samuel Henry Butcher - 1895 - 418 páginas
...moment for the argument. If we lose sight of the metaphor, the significance of the process is missed. to just measure with a kind of delight stirred up by reading or seeing those passages well imitated. Nor is Nature herself wanting in her own efforts to make good his assertion,... | |
 | 1898 - 584 páginas
...Milton had taken a similar view, in the preface to the ' Samson ' Agonistes.' Tragedy, he remarks, 'is said by Aristotle to ' be of power, by raising pity...of those and such like passions ; that is to temper f or reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight ' stirred vp by reading or seeing these passages... | |
 | Sophocles - 1900 - 186 páginas
...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.' The pith of the explanation lies in the words 'to reduce them to just measure.' Aristotle's whole system... | |
 | John Milton - 1900 - 582 páginas
...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,...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1900 - 594 páginas
...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,...reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight, stirr'd up by reading or seeing those passions well imitated. Xor is Nature wanting in her own effects... | |
 | John Milton - 1903 - 694 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 just...a kind of delight, stirred up by reading or seeing thoie putions well imitated. Nor is Nature wanting in her own effects to make good his assertion; for... | |
 | Lewis Campbell - 1904 - 308 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 just...by reading or seeing those passions well imitated.' Dryden's paraphrase may also be quoted here : ' Tragedy ... is an imitation of one entire, great, and... | |
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