 | John Milton - 1880 - 654 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... | |
 | 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, or terror, to purge fhe mind of those and such like passions, that is to temper and reduce them to just measure with a... | |
 | David Masson - 1880 - 880 pages
...and most profitable of all other " poems ; therefore said by Aristotle to be of power, by rais" ing 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1881 - 590 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 Milton - 1881 - 894 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... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - Sermons, English - 1881 - 428 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, by representing human nature in its happier moods, to lift the mind above... | |
 | John Milton - 1881 - 528 pages
...ever held the gravest, moralest and most profitable of all other poems : therefore said by Aristutlc to be of power by raising pity, and fear or terror,...is, to temper and reduce them to just measure with a \andof delight, stirred up by reading or seeing those passions well imitated. Nor is nature -wanting... | |
 | John Milton - 1882 - 438 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,... | |
 | John Brown - 1882 - 506 pages
...is one great end of poetry and painting. Even when painful and terrible in 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;'... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - Fathers and daughters - 1886 - 148 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." Of the emotions to which man is subject, pity and terror are the most urgent and tense and the most... | |
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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,... 
