| James Douglas (of Cavers.) - 1839 - 404 pages
...greater and more heroical ; because true history propoundeth successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore...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
...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 poesy feigns them more just l Painters aml poets have equal privilège in action. LVoesy— Baffiiclle.] in retribution, and more... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1841 - 590 pages
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| 1841 - 832 pages
...because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merjts of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more...more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth them with more rareness, and more unexpected and alternative variations ; so as it appcareth... | |
| Samuel Tyler - 1844 - 214 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... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 778 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, ami more unexpected and alternative variations : so as it appeareth... | |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1847 - 366 pages
...greater and moreheroical. Because true history propoundeth the sacrifices 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 it appeareth that... | |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1847 - 360 pages
...sacrifices and issues of actions, not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigus them more just in retribution, and more according...more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth them with more rareness, and more unexpected and alternative variations ; so it appeareth that... | |
| Henrietta Joan Fry - 1848 - 304 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... | |
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