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 101by Francis Bacon - 1869 - 379 pagesFull view - About this book
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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