 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 propounded! the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable...  The Descent of Liberty: A Mask - Page xviiby Leigh Hunt - 1815 - 82 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Dyer - 1812 - 240 pages
...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,...according to revealed providence : because true history represented! actions and events more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore poetry endued* them... | |
 | George Dyer - 1814 - 316 pages
...of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical : because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable...according to revealed providence : because true history representetli actions and events more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth them... | |
 | 1843 - 706 pages
...of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical ; because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable...according to revealed providence ; because true history represented actions and events more ordinary, and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth them with... | |
 | 1825 - 426 pages
...acts and events greater and more heroical; because true history propoundeth the successes and ssues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue...retribution, and more according to revealed Providence: : so as it appeareth, poesy scrvctli to magnanimity, to morality, and to delectation. \nd therefore... | |
 | 1825 - 412 pages
...acts and events greater and more heroical; because :rue history propoundeth the successes and ssucs of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy eigns them more just in retribution, and more according to revealed Providence : so as it appeareth,... | |
 | James Barry - 1831 - 228 pages
...of man, poesy faineth acts and events greater and more heroical; because true historic propoundeth the successes and issues of actions, not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesie fains them more just in retribution, and more according to revealed providence. Because true... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1924 - 202 pages
...nI. v. 6 ; Bacon, The Advancement of Learning, Book II. 1v. § 2 : " Because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable...therefore poesy feigns them more just in retribution," etc. W. A. Wright says that success " was formerly a colourless word, which required to be defined... | |
 | 1837 - 352 pages
...of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical ; because true history propomideth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable...according to revealed providence; because true history represeuteth actions and events more ordinary, and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth them... | |
 | James Douglas (of Cavers.) - 1839 - 404 pages
...of man, Poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical ; because true history propoundeth successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to...just in retribution, and more according to revealed Provi-- dence ; because true history representeth actions and events more ordinary, and less interchanged,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical : because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable...virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more just l Painters aml poets have equal privilège in action. LVoesy— Baffiiclle.] in retribution, and more... | |
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