 | John Milton - 1890 - 262 pages
...was anciently composed, hath been ever held the gravestyjnoralesk and "wt pr^fita-hlft "f a11 "ther poems : therefore said by Aristotle to be of power,...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,... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - Authors, English - 1890 - 466 pages
...Hahnemann, 1755-1843, father of Homoeopathy. — M. 2 ' ' Tragedy, as it was anciently composed, hath "been ever held the ' gravest, moralest, and most profitable of all other poems ; therefore 1 said by Aristotle to be of power, by raising pity and fear or terror, * to purge the mind of those... | |
 | Lewis Campbell - Greek drama - 1891 - 362 pages
...reference to this passage must not be omitted : 1 — " Tragedy, as it was anciently conceived, hath been ever held the gravest, moralest, and most profitable...and fear, or terror, to purge the mind of those and suchlike passions, that is, to temper and reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight, stirred... | |
 | Arthur Octavius Prickard - Aesthetics - 1891 - 196 pages
...of the true sense in his preface to Samson Agonistes : " Tragedy, as it was anciently composed, hath been ever held the gravest, moralest, and most profitable...Aristotle to be of power, by raising pity and fear, or terrour, to purge the mind of those and such-like passions ; that is, to temper or reduce them to just... | |
 | Lewis Campbell - Greek drama - 1891 - 356 pages
...reference to this passage must not be omitted : l — " Tragedy, as it was anciently conceived, hath :\ been ever held the gravest, moralest, and most profitable...Aristotle to be of power, by raising pity and fear, or terrorpto purge the mind of those and suchlike passions, that is, to temper and reduce them to just... | |
 | Lewis Campbell - Greek drama - 1891 - 376 pages
...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... | |
 | John Milton - English Literature - 1892 - 654 pages
...lustrationem. OF THAT SORT OF DRAMATIC POEM CALLED TRAGEDY. TRAGEDY, as it was anciently composed, hath been ever held the gravest, moralest, and most profitable...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 - 1892 - 406 pages
...DRAMATIC POEM CALLED TRAGEDY. TRAGEDY, as it was anciently composed, hath been ever held the gravest and most profitable of all other poems ; therefore...and fear, or terror, to purge the mind of those and such-like passions — that is, to temper and reduce them to just measure and a kind of delight, stirred... | |
 | Samuel Henry Butcher - Aesthetics - 1895 - 418 pages
...words. In his preface to Samson Agonistes he writes : I 'Tragedy, as it was anciently composed, hath * been ever held the gravest, moralest, and most profitable of all other poems; therefore said by 4 Aristotle to be of power, by raising pity and fe*r, or terrour, to purge the mind of those and suchlike... | |
 | 1896 - 188 pages
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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 suchlike passions,... 
