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" 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,... "
A Defence of the Drama: Containing Mansel's Free Thoughts, Extracts from the ... - Page 76
1826 - 294 pages
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Bell's Edition, Volumes 31-32

John Bell - 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 - 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,...just measure with a kind of delight, stirred up by reading or seeing those passions well imitated. — Hence philosophers and other gravest writers, as...
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Paradise Lost and Regained: With the Latin and Other Poems of John ..., Volume 4

John Milton - 1810 - 414 pages
...is catted Tragedy. TRAGEDY, as it was anciently cornel, hath been ever held the gravest, moralest, and most profitable of all other poems : therefore...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
...is called Tragedy. TRAGEDY, as it was anciently composed, hath been ever held the gravest, moralest, and most profitable of all other poems : therefore...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 - 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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Cowley, Denham, Milton

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 pages
...species of writing, he thought if expedient to prefix to bis play a funnat defence of tragedy. WARTOX, 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 - 1812 - 516 pages
...passage. — " Tragedy, as it was anciently composed, hath " been ever held the gravest, moralest, and most ** profitable of all other Poems : therefore...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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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With the Life of the Author, Volume 2

John Milton - 1813 - 270 pages
...IS CALLED TRAGEDY. TRAGEDY, as it was anciently composed, bath been ever held the gravest, moralest, and most profitable of all other poems : therefore...just measure with a kind of delight, stirred up by reading- or seeing those passions well imitated. Nor is Nature wanting in her «wn effects to make...
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Free Thoughts Upon Methodists, Actors, and the Influence of the Stage: With ...

Robert Mansel - 1814 - 232 pages
...yourself a convert to the stage, by a single perusal of Milton's preface to his Sampson AgonisteTQ " Tragedy," says he, " as it was anciently composed,...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 - 1814 - 230 pages
...Sampson 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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