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... The Poetical Works of John Milton: Edited, with Memoir, Introductions, Notes ... - Página 91por John Milton - 1903Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Enaeas Sweetland Dallas - 1866 - 362 páginas
...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...by reading or seeing those passions well imitated." He supports this view by an argument from the homoeopathy of the time, which if it is unsound in fact,... | |
| John Milton, Edward Phillips - 1868 - 632 páginas
...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...against melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt-humors. Hence philosophers, and other gravest writers, as Cicero, Plutarch, and others, frequently... | |
| John Milton - 1870 - 352 páginas
...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...make good his assertion ; for so in physic things of melancholy hue and quality are used against melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humours.... | |
| 1871 - 632 páginas
...stirred up 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...melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humours." This proves that homoeopathy was practised in Milton's time, and even Hippocrates alludes to it. The... | |
| 1871 - 704 páginas
...Aristotle to be of power, by raising pity and fejir or terror, to purge the mind of those and such like passions — that, is, to temper and reduce them to...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... | |
| H. Th Wolff - 1871 - 40 páginas
...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...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.... | |
| H. Th Wolff - 1871 - 44 páginas
...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 up byreading or seeing those passions well imitated." (As Milton himself did not intend the drama for... | |
| John Milton - 1872 - 104 páginas
...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...make good his assertion ; for so in physic things of melancholy hue and quality are used against melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humours.... | |
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1874 - 870 páginas
...poison of the old will die.' Milton, in the preface to Sammn Arjonutes, gives his version thus : ' In physic, things of melancholic hue and quality are...melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humours,' Ac. Thus, there has always been a vague tradition that medicines sometimes cured diseases similar to... | |
| Allen Corson Cowperthwaite - 1877 - 28 páginas
...misanthropes of a similar character. Milton, in the preface to Samson Agonistes, gives his version thus : " In physic things of melancholic hue and quality are...melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humors, etc." But why weary you with farther evidences of the eternal and universal character of the... | |
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