 | John Bell - English poetry - 1788 - 628 pages
...morateit, and most profitable 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...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 540 pages
...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,...by reading or seeing those passions well imitated. Nor is Nature wanting in her own effects to make good his assertion : for so, in physick, things of... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 418 pages
...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,...by reading or seeing those passions well imitated. Nor is Nature wanting in her own effects to make good his assertion : for so, in physick, things of... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 414 pages
...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, 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 - Aesthetics - 1812 - 516 pages
...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 w and such like passions ; that is, to temper and " reduce them to just measure, with a kind of " delight,... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 270 pages
...bath 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,...by reading- or seeing those passions well imitated. Nor is Nature wanting in her «wn effects to make good his assertion: for so, iti physic, things of... | |
 | Robert Mansel - Drama - 1814 - 230 pages
...and most profitable of 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...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 - Drama - 1814 - 232 pages
...and most profitable of 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...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 - Aesthetics - 1815 - 492 pages
...held the gravest, moralest, and most profitable of all other poems: therefore said by Aristotle u> be 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, with a kind of delight, stirred up by reading... | |
 | Classical philology - 1821 - 466 pages
...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 ; that is, to temper and to reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight,... | |
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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 such like passions,... 
