| John Milton - 1870 - 116 trang
...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 reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight, stirred... | |
| H. Th Wolff - 1871 - 40 trang
...expresses his design still more precisely by explaining that Aristotelic sentence : „ Tragedy is said by Aristotle to be of power by raising pity and fear,...by reading or seeing those passions well imitated." As Milton himself did not intend the drama for the stage, he omitted the division into acts and scenes.... | |
| John Milton - 1871 - 530 trang
...moralest, and most profitable of all other poems ; therefore said by Aristotle to be of power, by raismg pity, and fear or terror, to purge the mind of those...by reading or seeing those passions well imitated. Nor is nature wanting in her own effects to make good his assertion, for so in physic things of melancholic... | |
| H. Th Wolff - 1871 - 44 trang
...expresses his design still more precisely by explaining that Aristotelic sentence : flTragedy is said by Aristotle to be of power by raising pity and fear,...to just measure with a kind of delight, stirred up byreading or seeing those passions well imitated." (As Milton himself did not intend the drama for... | |
| 1871 - 632 trang
...Agonistes, has this passage : — " Tragedy, said by Aristotle to be of power, by raising pity and fetir or terror, to purge the mind of those and such like...by reading or seeing those passions well imitated. Nor is Nature wanting in her own efforts to make good his assertion : for so in physic, things of melancholic... | |
| 1871 - 704 trang
...Ayanislcs, has this passage : — "Tragedy, said by Aristotle to be of power, by raising pity and fejir or terror, to purge the mind of those and such like...by reading or seeing those passions well imitated. Xor is Nature wanting in her own efforts to make good his assertion : for so in physic, things of melancholic... | |
| John Milton - 1872 - 104 trang
...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,...by reading or seeing those passions well imitated. Nor is Nature wanting in her own effects to make good his assertion ; for so in physic things of melancholy... | |
| John Timbs - 1873 - 378 trang
...preface to ' Samson Agonistes,' alludes to it as practised in his time. (Tragedy) ' 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 own efforts to make good his assertion : for so in physic, things of melancholic... | |
| John Milton - 1873 - 678 trang
...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 - 758 trang
...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,...by reading or seeing those passions well imitated. Nor is Nature wanting in her own effects to make good his assertion : for so, in physic, things of... | |
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