 | Michael A. Quinlan - 1912 - 262 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...alternative variations. So as it appeareth that poesy serve th and conferreth to magnanimity morality, and to delectation. And therefore it was ever thought... | |
 | Edward George Harman - 1914 - 632 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 representetl! actions and events more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth them... | |
 | Archibald Henderson - 1914 - 350 pages
...actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice," poetry, which he calls " feigned history," " feigns them more just in retribution and more according to revealed providence." The long conflict of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries over the principle of poetic justice... | |
 | John Buchan - 1923 - 746 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 endureth them with more rareness, and more unexpected and alternative variations. So as it appeareth... | |
 | Schelling anniversary papers - 1923 - 354 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: ... so as it appeareth that poesy serveth and conferred! to magnanimity, morality, and to delectation.... | |
 | Schelling anniversary papers - 1923 - 366 pages
...therefore poesy feigns them more just in retribution and more according to revealed providence: ... so as it appeareth that poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and to delectation. (Advancement of Learning.) Beyond this position criticism can scarcely be said to have advanced, up... | |
 | Albert Harris Tolman - 1925 - 300 pages
...quote one of these reasons: "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." Here Bacon makes poetic justice a fundamental, necessary element in poesy. Does any reader believe... | |
 | Albert Harris Tolman - 1925 - 292 pages
...poetical justice. He said: Because true History propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore...just in retribution and more according to revealed Providence.1 'Rymer II, 164. And yet some persons, by a striking mental process, manage to suppose... | |
 | Edward George Harman - 1925 - 352 pages
...successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigneth them more just in retribution and more according to revealed providence ; because true history represents actions and events more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth them with... | |
 | Hans Thüme - 1927 - 122 pages
...events greater and more heroical; becanse true history propoundeth the snccess and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore...representeth actions and events more ordinary and less iuterchanged , therefore poesy endueth them with more rareness, 40 die Worte gebunden, aber iu allen... | |
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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... 
