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" Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical. Because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable... "
Advancement of Learning - Page 101
by Francis Bacon - 1869 - 379 pages
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Poetics; Or a Series of Poems and Disquisitions on Poetry ...

George Dyer - 1812 - 240 pages
...I'oesi IItbra;orum Pralect. lect. i. not that magnitude which satisfied! the mind of man, poesy feignefh acts and events greater and more heroical : because...true history propoundeth the successes and issues of action not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more just in...
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History of the University and Colleges of Cambridge: Including ..., Volume 1

George Dyer - 1814 - 316 pages
...or events of true history, have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical : because...according to revealed providence : because true history representetli actions and events more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth them...
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History of the University and Colleges of Cambridge: Including ..., Volume 1

George Dyer - 1814 - 394 pages
...of Milton. The biographer admits that Cambridge has produced a richer harvest of poetry than Oxford. events greater and more heroical : because true history...according to revealed providence : because true history representeth actions and events more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth them with...
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The Descent of Liberty: A Mask

Leigh Hunt - 1815 - 160 pages
...or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, Poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical: because...according to revealed providence : because true history representeth actions and events more ordinary, and less interchanged, therefore Poesy endueth them...
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The Descent of Liberty: A Mask

Leigh Hunt - 1815 - 156 pages
...of man, Poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical: because true history propounded! the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable...according to revealed providence : because true history representeth actions and events more ordinary, and less interchanged, therefore Poesy endueth them...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Volume 1

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 pages
...or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical : because...according to revealed providence : because true history representeth actions and events more ordinary, and less interchanged ; therefore poesy endueth them...
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Albans ..., Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1824 - 642 pages
...or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical : because...according to revealed providence : because true history representeth actions and events more ordinary, and less interchanged ; therefore poesy endueth them...
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The Two Books of Francis, Lord Verulam: Of the Proficience and Advancement ...

Francis Bacon - 1825 - 432 pages
...or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfied! the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical: because...according to revealed providence: because true history representeth actions and events more ordinary, and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth them...
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Examples of English Prose: From the Reign of Elizabeth to the Present Time ...

George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical : because...according to revealed providence : because true history representeth actions and events more ordinary, and less interchanged ; therefore poesy endueth them...
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 2

Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth act& and events greater and more heroical : because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actionsnot so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more just in...
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