...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 morejust in retribution, and more according to revealed providence ; because true history ^ representeth...

...distinguished by a delicacy in the passion of love, and by a humanity and generostherefore poesy feigneth 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 enduefji them,...

...events greater and more heroical. Because history propbundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore...more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore poesy enduetb them with more rareness and more unexpected and alternative variations. So as it nppeareth...

...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...

...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...according to revealed providence. Because true history represented actions and events more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore poesy cndueth them with...

...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." What feeds the imagination of the poet, nourishes the faith of the Christian. We find in the present,...

...more jnst in retribution, and more according to revealed providence : because true history represented actions and events more ordinary, and less interchanged,...unexpected and alternative variations : so as it appeareth, poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and to delectation. And therefore it was ever...

...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...serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and delectation. And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it...

...Bacon also says, again, comparing poetry with history as a mode of representing acts, or events, " poesy feigns them more just in retribution and more according to revealed providence." And what Schlegel said of Shakespeare may be said as well, — nay, rather better, — of Bacon himself,...

...true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to (consistently with) the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns...therefore poesy endueth them with more rareness and more unex(1) Bacon's argument is, that poetry transcends historj%by representing the ideal instead of the...