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...their subjects, 'they are of power, by raising pity and fear or terror, to purge the mind of suchlike passions, — that is, to temper and reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight;' or, in the words of Charles Lamb, 'they dispose the mind to a meditative tenderness.' ence and godly...

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...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." Of the emotions to which man is subject, pity and terror are the most urgent and tense and the most...

...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, •tirred up by reading or seeing those passions well imitated. Nor is nature wanting in her own effects...

...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 make good his assertion ; for so, in ' physic, changes of melancholy hue and quality are used against ' melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove...

...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...well imitated. Nor is Nature ' wanting in her own effecte to make good his assertion ; for so, in ' physic, changes of melancholy hue and quality are...

...Aristotle to be of power, by raising pity and fear, or terror, to purge the mind of those and suchlike passions, that is, to temper and reduce them to just...by reading or seeing those passions well imitated." Aristotle's pregnant saying, however, is not only extremely condensed, but so oracular, that every...

...pity and fear, or terrour, to purge the mind of those and such-like passions ; that is, to temper or reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight, stirred up by reading or seeing those passages \__well imitated. Nor is Nature herself wanting in her own efforts to make good his assertion...

...moment for the argument. If we lose sight of the metaphor, the significance of the process is missed. to just measure with a kind of delight stirred up by reading or seeing those passages well imitated. Nor is Nature herself wanting in her own efforts to make good his assertion,...