 | Francis Bacon - 1887 - 878 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... | |
 | Philip Sidney - 1890 - 210 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... | |
 | 1891 - 478 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... | |
 | William Francis C. Wigston - 1891 - 502 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. . . . And therefore poesy was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1895 - 430 pages
...heroical. Because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable 20 to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy...more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth them with more rareness, and more unexpected and alternative variations. So as it appeareth... | |
 | Samuel Henry Butcher - 1895 - 418 pages
...which satisfieth the mind of man, Poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical ; . . . because true history representeth actions and events...more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore Poesy endueth them with more rareness : so as it appeareth that Poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity,... | |
 | Theron Soliman Eugene Dixon - 1895 - 472 pages
...successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poetry feigns them more just in retribution, and more according to revealed providence ; because true hisrecognized as such by the critics. Thus, Richard Grant White says: " Shakespeare's freedom in the... | |
 | William Basil Worsfold - 1897 - 308 pages
...events greater and more heroical. Because 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.' ' Here we have a signal example of the power of learning to raise a man above the limitations of his... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1900 - 462 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 - 1928 - 494 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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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... 
