 | Noah Porter - 1883 - 714 pages
...and issues of actions, not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns tbem more just in retribution, and more according to revealed Providence ; because true history repreMnteth actions and event* more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore poeey indneth them with... | |
 | Charles William Bardeen - 1884 - 828 pages
...greater and more lieroical; 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 (visct. St. Albans.) - 1884 - 564 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 variation : so as it appeareth... | |
 | Charles William Bardeen - 1884 - 828 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 unex.pected and alternative variations ; so as it appeareth... | |
 | Charles William Bardeen - 1884 - 828 pages
...greater and more heroieal; 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 represeiiteth nctious and events more ordinary, and less interchanged, therefore poesy eudueth them... | |
 | 1884 - 640 pages
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 | Francis Bacon - 1885 - 436 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 - 1885 - 438 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...retribution, and more according to revealed providence. j Because true history representeth actions and events more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1134 pages
...successes and issues of actions, not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore |x»e?-y feigns them more just in retribution, and more according to revealed Providence; because true history rcpresentclh action* and events more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore poesy inducth them with... | |
 | Henry Sewall - 1886 - 42 pages
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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... 
