 | Francis Bacon - 1869 - 446 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 represented! actions and events more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth them with... | |
 | Noah Porter - 1871 - 406 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...endueth them with more rareness and more unexpected and alternate variation: so it appeareth that poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and... | |
 | Noah Porter - 1871 - 408 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...endueth them with more rareness and more unexpected and alternate variation: so it appeareth that poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and... | |
 | Noah Porter - 1871 - 404 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...endueth them with more rareness and more unexpected and alternate variation: so it appeareth that poesy serveth and conferrcth to magnanimity, morality, and... | |
 | William Forsyth - 1871 - 352 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 indueth them with more rareness, and more unexpected and alternative variations ; so it appeareth that... | |
 | William Forsyth - 1871 - 388 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 indueth them with more rareness, and more unexpected and alternative variations; so it appeareth that... | |
 | William Forsyth - 1871 - 366 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 indueth them with more rareness, and more unexpected 'and alternative variations; so it appeareth that.... | |
 | William Forsyth - 1871 - 372 pages
...greater and more heroical; because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not eo agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore...more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore poesy indueth them with more rareness, and more unexpected and alternative .variations; so it appeareth that... | |
 | 1859 - 446 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...; therefore poesy endueth them with more rareness, so as it appeareth that poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and delectation ; and... | |
 | Iowa. General Assembly - 1872 - 964 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,...according to revealed providence ; because true history represented! actions and events more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth them with... | |
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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... 
