 | John Milton - 1874 - 758 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... | |
 | John Milton - English poetry - 1874 - 504 pages
...Aristotle to be of power, by raising Eity and fear, or terror, to purge the mind of those and suchke passions— that is, to temper and reduce them to...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1874 - 518 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 those and such-like passions — that is, to temper and reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight, stirred... | |
 | Henry Noble Day - English literature - 1877 - 564 pages
...the gravest, moralest, and most profitable of all other poems : therefore said by 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... | |
 | English literature - 1877 - 626 pages
...The purpose, for instance, of the tragic poet is, in the words of Milton's 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,'... | |
 | English literature - 1877 - 612 pages
...The purpose, for instance, of the tragic poet is, in the words of Milton's 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,'... | |
 | John Milton - 1878 - 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,...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.... | |
 | 1879 - 46 pages
...to develop, quicken, and exalt certain high faculties of the soul. The proper object of Tragedy is, "by raising pity and fear, or terror, to purge the...by reading or seeing those passions well imitated." The object of Comedy is not to do that, but by representing human nature in its happiest moods, to... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - Poets, English - 1879 - 192 pages
...reverence and sympathy of Englishmen. The Drama. — " Tragedy," Milton writes, translating Aristotle, " is of power, by raising pity, and fear, or terror, to...a kind of delight, stirred up by reading or seeing these passions well imitated." It is on the ground of this statement that the Samson Agonistes is to... | |
 | Jacob Bernays - Catharsis - 1880 - 204 pages
...verficht, fast Milton die Katharsis keineswegs als ,Lustration', vielmehr sagt er: Tragedy is 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... | |
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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,... 
