 | Merritt Yerkes Hughes - 1970 - 412 sivua
...Italy, p. 557). 261-6 In the preface to SA Milton writes: 'Tragedy, as it was antiently compos'd, hath been ever held the gravest, moralest, and most profitable...of those and such like passions, that is to temper 7 "HetSov n4v tycbv, tx&paaat 84 6elos "OpTipo$. and reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight,... | |
 | René Girard - 1979 - 356 sivua
...Milton and, to some extent, in all true dramatic poets: Tragedy, as it was anciently compos'd, hath been ever held the gravest, moralest and most profitable...reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight, stirr'd up by reading or generally involving children or young girls) suffice to remind us of the hard... | |
 | Dieter Wunderlich - 1979 - 380 sivua
...sociolects that could judge these sentences to be grammatical: Tragedy, as it was antiently compos'd, hath been ever held the gravest, moralest, and most profitable...Poems : therefore said by Aristotle to be of power of raising pity and fear, or terror, to purge the mind of those and such like passions, that is to... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 304 sivua
...gravest, moralest, and most profitable of all other poems." Aristotle's theory that tragedy has "the power by raising pity and fear, or terror, to purge the mind of those and such like passions" is cited, and every effort is made to prove that tragedy is of the highest seriousness. He explains... | |
 | William Kerrigan - 1983 - 372 sivua
...illusion. The poet begins to sing tragic notes in Book 9. This genre is, in the preface to Samson, "the gravest, moralest, and most profitable of all...reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight, stirr'd up by reading or seeing those passions well imitated." The catharsis of Oedipus Rex, Aristotle's... | |
 | John Milton - 1988 - 244 sivua
...AGONISTA Of That Sort of Dramatic Poem Which Is CaU'd Tragedy Tragedy, as it was antiently compos'd, hath been ever held the gravest, moralest, and most profitable...reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight, stirr'd up by reading or seeing those passions well imitated. Nor is Nature wanting in her own effects... | |
 | George Alexander Kennedy, Glyn P. Norton - 1989 - 790 sivua
...ed. JT Boulton, 2nd edn (Oxford: Blackwell, 1987), p. 59. -" Hall, Peri hupsous, p. 11; Longinus 7.2. fear, or terror, to purge the mind of those and such...by reading or seeing those passions well imitated'. Milton goes on to offer a homeopathic definition of catharsis: 'so in Physic things of melancholic... | |
 | Ronald L. Dotterer - 1989 - 252 sivua
...absorbed the homeopathic doctrine. "Tragedy, as it is anciently composed," Milton asserts, hath been ever the gravest, moralest, and most profitable of all...raising pity and fear, or terror, to purge the mind of these and such like passions, that is to temper and reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight,... | |
 | John Milton - 1926 - 360 sivua
...of all other Poems: there' fore said by Ariflodt to be of power by raising pity and fear, or tenor, to purge the mind of those and such like passions, that is to temper* and reduce them to juft measure with a kind of delight, Itirr'd up by reading or seeing those passions well imitated.... | |
 | Marvin A. Carlson - 1993 - 564 sivua
...the moral thoughts expressed in the text. Indeed, his citation of Aristotle on the end of drama — "raising pity and fear, or terror, to purge the mind...reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight, stirr'd up by reading or seeing those passions well imitated"17 — comes close to rejecting the traditional... | |
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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 suchlike passions,... 
