 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, Edward Phillips - 1868 - 632 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,...against melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt-humors. Hence philosophers, and other gravest writers, as Cicero, Plutarch, and others, frequently... | |
 | John Milton - 1870 - 352 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,...make 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 - 632 էջ
...stirred up by reading or seeing those passions well imitated. Nor is Nature wanting in her own efforts to make good his assertion : for so in physic, things...melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humours." This proves that homoeopathy was practised in Milton's time, and even Hippocrates alludes to it. The... | |
 | 1871 - 704 էջ
...pity and fejir 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. Xor is Nature wanting in her own efforts to make good his assertion : for so in physic, things of melancholic... | |
 | H. Th Wolff - 1871 - 40 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." As Milton himself did not intend the drama for the stage, he omitted the division into acts and scenes.... | |
 | John Milton - 1872 - 104 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,...make 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.... | |
 | John Timbs - 1873 - 378 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,...passions well imitated. Nor is Nature wanting in her own efforts to make good his assertion : for so in physic, things of melancholic hue and quality are used... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1874 - 870 էջ
...poison of the old will die.' Milton, in the preface to Sammn Arjonutes, gives his version thus : ' In physic, things of melancholic hue and quality are...melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humours,' Ac. Thus, there has always been a vague tradition that medicines sometimes cured diseases similar to... | |
 | Henry Noble Day - 1877 - 564 էջ
...suih. like passions, that is, to temper and reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight, stirr'd up by reading or seeing those passions well imitated....physic, things of melancholic hue and quality are us'd against melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humors. Hence philosophers and other... | |
 | Allen Corson Cowperthwaite - 1877 - 28 էջ
...misanthropes of a similar character. Milton, in the preface to Samson Agonistes, gives his version thus : " In physic things of melancholic hue and quality are...melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humors, etc." But why weary you with farther evidences of the eternal and universal character of the... | |
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