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
| Thomas De Quincey - 1890 - 466 էջ
...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...to make good his assertion ; for so, in ' physic, changes of melancholy hue and quality are used against ' melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1890 - 466 էջ
...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...well imitated. Nor is Nature ' wanting in her own effecte to make good his assertion ; for so, in ' physic, changes of melancholy hue and quality are... | |
| Lewis Campbell - 1891 - 362 էջ
...raising pity 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,...by reading or seeing those passions well imitated." Aristotle's pregnant saying, however, is not only extremely condensed, but so oracular, that every... | |
| Arthur Octavius Prickard - 1891 - 196 էջ
...pity and fear, or terrour, to purge the mind of those and such-like passions ; that is, to temper or reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight, stirred up by reading or seeing those passages \__well imitated. Nor is Nature herself wanting in her own efforts to make good his assertion... | |
| Samuel Henry Butcher - 1895 - 418 էջ
...moment for the argument. If we lose sight of the metaphor, the significance of the process is missed. to just measure with a kind of delight stirred up by reading or seeing those passages well imitated. Nor is Nature herself wanting in her own efforts to make good his assertion,... | |
| Thomas De Quincey, David Masson - 1897 - 460 էջ
...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...to make good his assertion ; for so, in ' physic, changes of melancholy hue and quality are used against ' melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove... | |
| 1897 - 870 էջ
...rank poison of the old will die.' Milton, in the preface to Samson Agoninte», gives his version thus: 'In physic, things of melancholic hue and quality...melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humors,' etc. Thus, there has always been a rague tradition that medicines sometimes cured diseases... | |
| John Clark Ridpath - 1897 - 496 էջ
...sufficient to induce mania." Milton, in the preface to $апикт АдопМсх, gives his version thus: "In physic, things of melancholic hue and quality...melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humors," etc. Thus, there has always been a vague tradition that medicines sometimes cured diseases... | |
| John Milton - 1899 - 466 էջ
...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,...humours. Hence philosophers and other gravest writers, aa Cicero, Plutarch, and others frequently cite out of tragic poets, both to adorn and illustrate their... | |
| Joel Elias Spingarn - 1899 - 354 էջ
...raising pity and fear, or terror, to purge the mind of tnose and such like passions ; that is, to temper and reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight,...melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humours." This passage has been regarded by Twining, Bernays, and other modern scholars as a remarkable indication... | |
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