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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... "
The two books of Francis Bacon: of the proficience and advancement of ... - Page 81
by Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1852
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Poetics; Or a Series of Poems and Disquisitions on Poetry ...

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...
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History of the University and Colleges of Cambridge: Including ..., Volume 1

George Dyer - 1814 - 320 pages
...Oxford. events greater and more heroical : because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue...endueth them with more rareness, and more unexpected variation, so as it appeareth, that poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and delectation*."...
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History of the University and Colleges of Cambridge: Including ..., Volume 1

George Dyer - 1814 - 316 pages
...acts and events greater and more heroical : because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue...according to revealed providence : because true history representetli 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 - 160 pages
...acts and events greater and more heroical: because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue...alternative variations ; so as it appeareth, that Pob esy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and to delectation. And therefore it was ever...
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The North American Review, Volume 56

1843 - 706 pages
...acts and events greater and more heroical ; because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue...according to revealed providence ; because true history represented actions and events more ordinary, and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth them with...
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The Two Books of Francis, Lord Verulam: Of the Proficience and Advancement ...

Francis Bacon - 1825 - 432 pages
...acts and events greater and more heroical: because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue...unexpected and alternative variations : so as it appeareth poesy serveth and conierreth to magnanimity, morality, and to delectation. And therefore it was ever...
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The United States Literary Gazette, Volume 1

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...
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The United States Literary Gazette, Volume 1

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,...
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Sig. 2x2-4B3 of vol.1 . Lectures, delivered in the Royal academy

James Barry - 1831 - 228 pages
...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...
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The Works of Shakespeare ..., Volume 26

William Shakespeare - 1924 - 202 pages
...Advancement of Learning, Book II. 1v. ยง 2 : " Because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue...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...
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