 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 terrour, to purge the mind of those and such like passions,...  Retrospective Review - Side 297redigeret af - 1826Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | John Bell - 1788 - 628 sider
...of all ether poems i therefore said by Aristotle ft be of power by raiting pity and fear, or terror^ to purge the mind of those and such like passions,...reduce them to just measure 'with a kind of delight, stirr'd up by reading or seeing those passions ntiett imitated. Nor is Nature ivanting in her own effefis... | |
 | James Plumptre - 1809 - 318 sider
...of all other poems: therefore said bv Aristotle to be of power by raising pity and fear, or terror, to purge the mind of those and such like passions...by reading or seeing those passions well imitated. — Hence philosophers and other gravest writers, as Cicero, Plutarch and others, frequently cite out... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 sider
...species of writing, he thought if expedient to prefix to bis play a funnat defence of tragedy. WARTOX, by Aristotle to be of power by raising pity and fear,...passions well imitated. Nor is Nature wanting in her own rffects to make good his assertion : for so, in physic, things of melancholic hue and quality are used... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 414 sider
...AGONISTES. Of thai sort of Dramatick Poem which is catted Tragedy. TRAGEDY, as it was anciently cornel, hath been ever held the gravest, moralest, and most...such like passions, that is, to temper and reduce lhem to just measure with a kind of delight, stirred up by reading or seeing those passions well imitated.... | |
 | Aristotle, Thomas Twining - 1812 - 516 sider
..." by Aristotle to- be of power, by raising pity, " and fear or terror, to purge the mind of those w and such like passions ; that is, to temper and "...reading or seeing those " passions well imitated." One thing should be added. Aristotle's assertion must be considered relatively to his own times, and... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 270 sider
...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,...passions well imitated. Nor is Nature wanting in her «wn effects to make good his assertion: for so, iti physic, things of melancholic hue and quality... | |
 | Robert Mansel - 1814 - 230 sider
...all other poems : therefore said by ARISTOTLE to be of power, by raising piety and fear, or terror, to purge the mind of those and such like passions;...just measure, with a kind of delight, stirred up by the reading, or SEEING those passions well imitated. Hence philosophers and 56 other grave writers,... | |
 | Robert Mansel - 1814 - 232 sider
...all other poems : therefore said by ARISTOTLE to be of power, by raising piety and fear, or terror, to purge the mind of those and such like passions...just measure, with a kind of delight, stirred up by the reading, or SEEING those passion» well imitated. Hence philosophers add other grave writers, as... | |
 | Aristotle - 1815 - 492 sider
...of power, by raising pity, and fear or terror, to purge the mind of those and such like passions j that is, to temper and reduce them to just measure,...by reading or seeing those passions well imitated." One thing should be added. Aristotie's assertion must be considered relatively to his own times and... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 356 sider
...mind of those and such like passions, tint is, to temper and reduce them to just measure with a krnd of delight, stirred up by reading or seeing those...passions well imitated. Nor is Nature wanting in her own cflVcts to make good his assertion : for so, in physic, things of melancholic hue and quality arc used... | |
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