 ... 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 to...  The Fortnightly Review - Page 7271883Full view - About this book
 | George Dyer - 1812 - 240 pages
...successes and issues of action not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more just in retribution, and more according to revealed providence : because true history represented! actions and events more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore poetry endued* them... | |
 | George Dyer - 1814 - 394 pages
...successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more just in retribution, and more according...interchanged, therefore poesy endueth them with more rareness, and more unexpected variation, so as it appeareth, that poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity,... | |
 | George Dyer - 1814 - 316 pages
...successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more just in retribution, and more according to revealed providence : because true history representetli actions and events more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth them... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1815 - 160 pages
...successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore Poesy feigns them more just in retribution, and more according...interchanged, therefore Poesy endueth them with more rareness, and more unexpected and alternative variations ; so as it appeareth, that Pob esy serveth and conferreth... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 pages
...successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more just in retribution, and more according...; therefore poesy endueth them with more rareness, and more unexpected and alternative variations : so as it appeareth that poesy serveth and conferreth... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1819 - 640 pages
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 | 1843 - 706 pages
...successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more just in retribution, and more according to revealed providence ; because true history represented actions and events more ordinary, and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth them with... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1824 - 642 pages
...successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more just in retribution, and more according...; therefore poesy endueth them with more rareness, and more unexpected and alternative variations : so as it appeareth that poesy serveth and conferreth... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 432 pages
...successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more just in retribution, and more according...interchanged, therefore poesy endueth them with more rareness, and more unexpected and alternative variations : so as it appeareth poesy serveth and conierreth to... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more just in retribution, and more according...; therefore poesy endueth them with more rareness, and more unexpected and alternative variations : so as it appeareth that poesy serveth and conferreth... | |
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