 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...  The Poetical Works of John Milton - Էջ 2John Milton - 1852Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | John Milton - 1835 - 350 էջ
...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,...by reading or seeing those passions well imitated." &c. On this Warton makes the following note:— " Milton, who was inclined to puritanism, had good... | |
 | John Aikin - 1841 - 840 էջ
...raising pity and fear, or terror, to purge the mind of those and sueh-like passions, that is, to temper S x -•mr against sour, salt to remove salt humors. — Hence Philosophers and other gravest writers,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 826 էջ
...raising pity and fear, or terror, to purge the mind of those and such like passions, that is, to temper s all abjure : When out of hope, behold her, not far off, Such as 1 s read ing or seeing those passions well imitated. Nor is Nature wanting in her own effects to make good... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 830 էջ
...raising pity and fear, or terror, to purge the mind of those and such like passions, that is, to temper with moral reflections on a future state. SEE, Winter comes, to rule roading or seeing those passions well imitated. Nor is Nature wanting in her own effects to make good... | |
 | 1845 - 854 էջ
...raising pity and fear, or terror, to purge the mind of these and such-like passions; t Hut is, to temper and reduce them to just measure, with a kind of delight, stirred up by reading or seeing tljo^e passions well imitated. Hence philosophers and • •ihi-r gravest writers, as Cicero, Plutarch,... | |
 | John Milton - 1847 - 604 էջ
...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,...good his assertion ; for so, in physic, things of melancholy hue and quality are used against melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humours.... | |
 | 1871 - 704 էջ
...pity ami feiir or terror, to purge the mind of those and puch like passions — that is, to temper and reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight,...passions well imitated. Nor is Nature wanting in her own eiTorts to make good his assertion : for so in physic, things of melancholia hue and quality are used... | |
 | 1852 - 874 էջ
...raising pity and fear, or terror, to purge the mind of those and such like passions, that is, to temper k - a @ * humors. — Hence Philosophers and other gravest writers, as Cicero, Plutarch, and others, frequently... | |
 | John Milton, George Gilfillan - 1853 - 376 էջ
...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,...assertion : for so, in physic, things of melancholic hne and quality are used against melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humours. Hence... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 380 էջ
...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,...own effects to make good his assertion : for so, in physio, things of melancholic hue and quality are used against melancholy, sour against sour, salt... | |
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