 | James Plumptre - 1809 - 318 pages
...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 by reading or seeing those passions well imitated. — Hence philosophers and other gravest writers, as Cicero, Plutarch and others,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 pages
...fear, or terrour, 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 by reading or seeing those passions well imitated. Nor is Nature wanting in her own rffects to make good his assertion : for so,... | |
 | William Hayley - 1810 - 418 pages
...fear, or terrour, 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 by reading or seeing those passions well imitated. Nor is Nature wanting in her own effects to make good his assertion : for so,... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 540 pages
...fear, or terrour, 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 by reading or seeing those passions well imitated. Nor is Nature wanting in her own effects to make good his assertion : for so,... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 414 pages
...fear, or terrour, to purge the mind of those and such like passions, that is, to temper and reduce lhem to just measure with a kind of delight, stirred up by reading or seeing those passions well imitated. Nor is Nature wanting ¡n her QWTj effects to make good his assertion -. for... | |
 | Aristotle, Thomas Twining - 1812 - 516 pages
...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, stirred up by reading or seeing those " passions well imitated." One thing should be added. Aristotle's assertion must be considered relatively... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 270 pages
...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 by reading- or seeing those passions well imitated. Nor is Nature wanting in her «wn effects to make good his assertion: for so,... | |
 | 1821 - 488 pages
...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, stirred up by reading or seeing those passions wellimitated.' It is evident from Aristotle's words that pity and terror are to be both the... | |
 | 1821 - 466 pages
...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, stirred up by reading or seeing those passions wellimitated.' It is evident from Aristotle's words that pity and terror are to be both the... | |
 | John Milton - 1823 - 220 pages
...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 by reading or seeing those passions well imitated. Nor is Nature wanting in her own effects to make good his assertion : for so,... | |
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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 measure with a kind of delight, stirred up by reading or seeing those passions well imitated. 
