 | 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,...events more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore poetry endued* them with more rareness, and more unexpected and alternative variations ; so that it... | |
 | George Dyer - 1814 - 320 pages
...poetry than Oxford. events greater and more heroical : because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits...according to revealed providence : because true history representeth actions and events more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth them with... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1815 - 160 pages
...feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical: because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits...according to revealed providence : because true history representeth actions and events more ordinary, and less interchanged, therefore Poesy endueth them... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 pages
...feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical : because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits...according to revealed providence : because true history representeth actions and events more ordinary, and less interchanged ; therefore poesy endueth them... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1819 - 640 pages
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 | 1843 - 706 pages
...feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical ; because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits...more ordinary, and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth them with more rareness, and more unexpected and alternative variations ; so, as it appeareth,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1824 - 642 pages
...feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical : because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits...according to revealed providence : because true history representeth actions and events more ordinary, and less interchanged ; therefore poesy endueth them... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical : because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits...according to revealed providence : because true history representeth actions and events more ordinary, and less interchanged ; therefore poesy endueth them... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 432 pages
...feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical: because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits...according to revealed providence: because true history representeth actions and events more ordinary, and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth them... | |
 | 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...according to revealed providence: because true history representeth actions and events more ordinary, and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth them... | |
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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... 
