| John Milton - 1873 - 678 Seiten
...in writing this tragedy, and the sense of which he hath expressed in the preface, that "Tragedy is of power, by raising pity and fear or terror, to purge the mind of those and such like passions," &c. This he exemplifies here in Manoah and the Chorus, after their various agitations of passion, acquiescing... | |
| John Milton - 1874 - 518 Seiten
...lustrationem. OF THAT SORT OF DRAMATIC POEM CALLED TRAGEDY. TRAGEDY, as it was anciently composed, hath been ever held the gravest, moralest, and most profitable...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, stirred... | |
| John Milton - 1874 - 504 Seiten
...lustrationem. OF THAT SORT OF DRAMATIC POEM CALLED TRAGEDY. TRAGEDY, as it was anciently composed, hath been ever held the gravest, moralest, and most profitable...therefore said by Aristotle to be of power, by raising Eity and fear, or terror, to purge the mind of those and suchke passions— that is, to temper and... | |
| Henry Noble Day - 1877 - 564 Seiten
...Of that sort of Dramatic Poem which, is call'd Tragedy. TRAGEDY, as it was anciently compos'd, hath been ever held the gravest, moralest, and most profitable...of all other poems : therefore said by Aristotle to tie of power by raising pity and fear, or terror, to purge the mind of those and suih. like passions,... | |
| 1877 - 612 Seiten
...The purpose, for instance, of the tragic poet is, in the words of Milton's paraphrase of Aristotle, ' by 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 * Keble's ' Prcelectioncs,'... | |
| 1877 - 626 Seiten
...The purpose, for instance, of the tragic poet is, in the words of Milton's paraphrase of Aristotle, ' by 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 * Keble's ' Pruelectiones,'... | |
| John Milton - 1878 - 354 Seiten
...OF THAT SORT OF DRAMATIC POEM WHICH IS CALLED TRAGEDY. TRAGEDY, as it was anciently composed, hath been ever held the gravest, moralest, and most profitable...such like passions, that is, to temper and reduce tltrm to just measure with a kind of delight, stirred up by reading or seeing those passions well imitated.... | |
| 1879 - 46 Seiten
...to develop, quicken, and exalt certain high faculties of the soul. The proper object of Tragedy is, "by raising pity and fear, or terror, to purge the...by reading or seeing those passions well imitated." The object of Comedy is not to do that, but by representing human nature in its happiest moods, to... | |
| Stopford Augustus Brooke - 1879 - 192 Seiten
...reverence and sympathy of Englishmen. The Drama. — " Tragedy," Milton writes, translating Aristotle, " is of power, by raising pity, and fear, or terror, to...a kind of delight, stirred up by reading or seeing these passions well imitated." It is on the ground of this statement that the Samson Agonistes is to... | |
| John Milton - 1880 - 654 Seiten
...lustrationem. OF THAT SORT OF DRAMATIC POEM CALLED TRAGEDY. TRAGEDY, as it was anciently composed, hath been ever held the gravest, moralest, and most profitable...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, stirred... | |
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