 | John Bell - 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... | |
 | James Plumptre - 1809 - 318 pages
...hath ever been held / the gravest, moralest, and most profitable of all other poems: therefore said bv Aristotle to be of power by raising pity and fear,...by reading or seeing those passions well imitated. — Hence philosophers and other gravest writers, as Cicero, Plutarch and others, frequently cite out... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 540 pages
...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, that is, to temper and reduce them to just... | |
 | William Hayley - 1810 - 418 pages
...was anciently composed, hath been ever held the gravest, moralest, snd Hiost 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, that is, to temper and reduce them to just... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 414 pages
...it was anciently cornel, 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, that is, to temper and reduce lhem to just... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 pages
...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, or terrour, to purge the mind of those and such like passions, that is, to temper and reduce them to just... | |
 | Aristotle, Thomas Twining - 1812 - 516 pages
...anciently composed, hath " been ever held the gravest, moralest, and most ** profitable of all other Poems : therefore said " by Aristotle to- be of power,...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
...was anciently composed, bath been ever held the gravest, moralest, and most profitable of all other poems : therefore said by Aristotle to be of power,...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 - 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... | |
 | Robert Mansel - 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,... | |
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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,... 
