 | James Barry, John Opie, Henry Fuseli - 1848 - 586 pages
...successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesie fains them more just in retribution, and more according to revealed providence. Because true historie representeth actions more ordinarie and less interchanged, there poesie endueth them with... | |
 | John Harris - 1849 - 526 pages
...events greater and more heroical ; because true history propoundeth successes and issues of action not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore...retribution, and more according to revealed Providence. And therefore it was even thought to have some participation of,, divineness, because it doth raise... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 pages
...greater and more heroical: because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of , actions not continued ; and after, in the beginning of Midsummer term, I attending her, and findin re- • tribution, and more according to revealed providence : because true history representeth actions... | |
 | 1853 - 604 pages
...and the issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore Poesy feigneth them more just in retribution, and more according...interchanged, therefore Poesy endueth them with more rareness, so as it appeareth that Poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and delectation. And,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1877 - 394 pages
...greater and more heroical ; because the 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 endureth them with more rareness, and more unexpected and alternative variations ; so as it appeareth... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 pages
...greater and more heroical ; because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not represented actions and events more ordinary, and less interchanged ; therefore poesy endueth them... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 514 pages
...distinguished by a delicacy in the passion of love, and by a humanity and generostherefore poesy foigneth them more just in retribution, and more according...providence : because true history representeth actions jind events more ordinary, and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth them with more rareness,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1855 - 530 pages
...distinguished by a delicacy in the passion of love, and by a humanity and generosthercfore poesy feigncth them more just in retribution, and more according to revealed providence: because true history represented! actions and events more ordinary, and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth them... | |
 | David Masson - 1856 - 528 pages
...and the issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore Poesy feigneth them more just in retribution, and more according...interchanged, therefore Poesy endueth them with more rareness, so as it appeareth that Poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and delectation. And,... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1857 - 424 pages
...because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merit of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more...and more according to revealed providence ; because history representeth actions and events more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth... | |
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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... 
