 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...  The Fortnightly Review - Page 7271883Full 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
...found in the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts, or events of true history, have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy...to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more just in retribution, and more according to revealed providence : because true history... | |
 | 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...to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more just in retribution, and more according to revealed providence : because true history... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1815 - 160 pages
...found in the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, Poesy...to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore Poesy feigns them more just in retribution, and more according to revealed providence : because true history... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1815 - 156 pages
...found in the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, Poesy...events greater and more heroical: because true history propounded! the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 pages
...found in the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy...to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more just in retribution, and more according to revealed providence : because true history... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1819 - 640 pages
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 | 1843 - 706 pages
...found in the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy...to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more just in retribution, and more according to revealed providence ; because true history... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1824 - 642 pages
...found in the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy...to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more just in retribution, and more according to revealed providence : because true history... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...found in the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy...to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more just in retribution, and more according to revealed providence : because true history... | |
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