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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With the Life of the Author - Page 75
by John Milton - 1813 - 565 pages
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Bell's Edition, Volumes 31-32

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...
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Four Discourses on Subjects Relating to the Amusement of the Stage: Preached ...

James Plumptre - Theater - 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...
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Paradise Lost and Regained: With the Latin and Other Poems of John ..., Volume 4

John Milton - 1810 - 414 pages
...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 profitable...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...
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Cowper's Milton [the poetical works, with life, notes and tr. by W. Cowper ...

John Milton - 1810 - 540 pages
...Of that sort of Dramatick Poem which is called Tragedy. TRAGEDY, as it was anciently composed, hath been ever held the gravest, moralest, and most profitable...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...
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Paradise regained. An account of Cowper's writings, relating to Milton. A ...

William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 418 pages
...Tragedy. TRAGEDY, as it 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...
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Aristotle's Treatise on Poetry, Translated: With Notes on the ..., Volume 2

Aristotle, Thomas Twining - Aesthetics - 1812 - 516 pages
...as far as it goes, with my idea of the passage. — " Tragedy, as it was anciently composed, hath " been ever held the gravest, moralest, and most **...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,...
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Free Thoughts Upon Methodists, Actors, and the Influence of the Stage: With ...

Robert Mansel - Drama - 1814 - 232 pages
...AgonisteTQ " Tragedy," says he, " as it was anciently composed, has been held the GREATEST MORALIST 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 such like passions ; that is, to temper and...
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Free thoughts upon Methodists, actors, and the influence of the stage; with ...

Robert Mansel - Drama - 1814 - 230 pages
...Agonistes. " Tragedy," says he, " as it was anciently composed, has been held the SREATEST MORALIST 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 such like passions; that is, to temper and...
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Aristotle's Treatise on Poetry, Translated: With Notes on the Translation ...

Aristotle - Aesthetics - 1815 - 492 pages
...exactly, as far as it goes, with my idea of the passage. — " Tragedy, as it was antiently composed, hath been ever 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...
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The Classical Journal, Volume 24

Classical philology - 1821 - 466 pages
...Milton in the Introduction to his Samson Agonistes : — ' 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 to reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight,...
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