 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 pages
...history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions, not so agreeable to the merits of virtue anil vice, therefore poesy feigns them more just in retribution,...according to revealed Providence; because true history represcnteth actions and events more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore poesy inducth ihcm with... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 538 pages
...greater and more heroical: becanse true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions, not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more jnst in retribution, wnd more according to revealed Providence; because true history representelb aetions... | |
 | 1883 - 908 pages
...successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore Poesy feignclh 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... | |
 | Noah Porter - 1883 - 714 pages
...greater and more heroical ; because true history proponndeth the successes 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... | |
 | 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...serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and delectation. And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it... | |
 | 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...serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and delectation. And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineuess, because it... | |
 | 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...more rareness, and more unexpected and alternative variation : so as it appeareth that poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and to delectation.... | |
 | Charles William Bardeen - 1884 - 824 pages
...greater and more heroical ; because true history propouudcth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore...interchanged, therefore poesy endueth them with more rarenesa, and more uneipected and alternative variations ; so as it appeareth that poesy servetb and... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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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... 
