 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1134 pages
...successes and issues of actions, not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore |x»e?-y feigns them more just in retribution, and more according to revealed Providence; because true history rcpresentclh action* and events more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore poesy inducth them with... | |
 | 1886 - 562 pages
...events greater and more heroical True history reprosenteth actions and events more ordinary and loss interchanged, therefore poesy endueth them with more...variations : so as it appeareth that poesy serveth and couferreth to maguimity, morality, and to delectation. Cymerwn ninnau esiampl oddiwrth y gwr mawr y... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1887 - 882 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...variations. So as it appeareth that poesy serveth and conferrcth to magnanimity, morality, and to delectation. And therefore it was ever' thought to have... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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...interchanged, therefore Poesy endueth them with more rareness : so as it appeareth that Poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and delectation. And,... | |
 | 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, Mrs. Henry Pott - 1900 - 318 pages
...— As You Like It iii. 3. " 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.'' — Advt. L. ii. 1, (See, in illustration, the deaths of nearly all noble persons in the Tragedies.)... | |
 | 1900 - 452 pages
...magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, Poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical; because true history representeth actions and events...therefore, Poesy endueth them with more rareness; so it appeareth that Poesy serveth and confereth to magnanimity, morality and delectation, and 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... 
