 | John Brown - 1861 - 516 pagina’s
...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 ;"... | |
 | John Brown - 1862 - 360 pagina’s
...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;"... | |
 | William Purton - 1865 - 176 pagina’s
...from Milton's introduction to his Samson Agonistes : " Tragedy, as it was anciently composed, hath been ever held the gravest, moralest, and most profitable...by reading or seeing those passions well imitated." " One thing," Mr. Twining continues, " should be added. Aristotle's assertion must be considered relatively... | |
 | 1848 - 636 pagina’s
...said it ought always to be — " The gravest, moralest, and most profitable of all poems — being of power, by raising pity, and fear, or terror, to purge the mind of those and such Шее passions." Besides its being inspired, and its having in it so much of the mind and the will... | |
 | Enaeas Sweetland Dallas - 1866 - 362 pagina’s
...Milton says, that " tragedy, as it was anciently composed, hath been ever held the greatest moralist and most profitable of all other poems: therefore...by reading or seeing those passions well imitated." He supports this view by an argument from the homoeopathy of the time, which if it is unsound in fact,... | |
 | John Milton - 1870 - 116 pagina’s
...OF THAT SORT OF DRAMATIC POEM WHICH IS 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... | |
 | H. Th Wolff - 1871 - 40 pagina’s
...expresses his design still more precisely by explaining that Aristotelic sentence : „ Tragedy is said by Aristotle to be of power by raising pity and...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.... | |
 | H. Th Wolff - 1871 - 44 pagina’s
...Milton expresses his design still more precisely by explaining that Aristotelic sentence : flTragedy is said by Aristotle to be of power by raising pity and...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... | |
 | 1871 - 702 pagina’s
...Ayanislcs, has 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...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1871 - 530 pagina’s
...OF THAT SORT OF DRAMATIC POEM WHICH IS CALLED TRAGEDY. Tragedy, as it was anciently composed, hath been ever held the gravest, moralest, and most profitable...poems ; therefore said by Aristotle to be of power, by raismg pity, and fear or terror, to purge the mind of those and such like passions, that is, to temper... | |
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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,... 
