 | George Dyer - 1812 - 240 pages
...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...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
...greater and more heroical : because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore...more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth them with more rareness, and more unexpected variation, so as it appeareth, that poesy serveth... | |
 | George Dyer - 1814 - 316 pages
...greater and more heroical : because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore...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
...greater and more heroical: because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore...more ordinary, and less interchanged, therefore Poesy endueth them with more rareness, and more unexpected and alternative variations ; so as it appeareth,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1819 - 640 pages
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 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 pages
...greater and more heroical : because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore...ordinary, and less interchanged ; therefore poesy endueth them with more rareness, and more unexpected and alternative variations : so as it appeareth... | |
 | 1843 - 706 pages
...greater and more heroical ; because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore...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
...greater and more heroical : because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore...ordinary, and less interchanged ; therefore poesy endueth them with more rareness, and more unexpected and alternative variations : so as it appeareth... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...greater and more heroical : because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actionsnot so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore...more ordinary, and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth them with more rareness, and. more unexpected and alternative variations: so as it appeareth... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...greater and more heroical : because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore...ordinary, and less interchanged ; therefore poesy endueth them with more rareness, and more unexpected and alternative variations : so as it appeareth... | |
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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... 
