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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... "
The Works of Francis Bacon: Lord Chancellor of England - Page 120
by Francis Bacon - 1825
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Studien zur englischen Philologie, Issue 71

Hans Thüme - 1927 - 120 pages
...events greater and more heroical; because true history propoundeth the success and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore...and more according to revealed providence; because trne bistory representeth actions and events more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth...
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Beiträge zur Geschichte des Geniebegriffs in England

Hans Thüme - 1927 - 120 pages
...können daher nicht erworben werden, sondern müssen angeboren sein. Alle Regeln und Vorschriften sind and more unexpected and alternative variations. So...conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and to delectation (1, 6). ') Poesy is a part of learniug in measure of words for the most part restrained, but in all...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 105

1910 - 872 pages
...successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice," the greater art " ' 2 |j C Y= q R <i 7 VSy ! ,t ' P & Mp I: # Μdh n < So it gives " some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of...
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Aristotle's Theory of Poetry and Fine Art: With a Critical Text and ...

Samuel Henry Butcher, Aristotle, John Gassner - 1951 - 516 pages
...actions and events more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore Poesy endueth them with more rareness : so as it appeareth that Poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and delectation. And, therefore, it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because...
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Essays on Dramatic Traditions: Challenges and Transmissions

Mary Beth Rose - 1989 - 256 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...rareness, and more unexpected and alternative variations" (6: 202-03; emphasis mine). Although, in words especially relevant to Ford's play, Bacon elsewhere...
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The Discipline of Taste and Feeling

Charles Wegener - 1992 - 244 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...revealed providence; because true history representeth more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth them with more rareness and more unexpected...
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The Civic Spectacle: Essays on Drama and Community

Mera J. Flaumenhaft - 1994 - 186 pages
...Bacon elaborates on this view: "because true history propoundeth the success and issues of action not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore...just in retribution, and more according to revealed Providence."59 In the terms of his famous formula about Machiavelli, poetry depicts, "not what men...
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George Grant and the Subversion of Modernity: Art, Philosophy, Politics ...

Arthur Davis - 1996 - 374 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...and more unexpected and alternative variations. So it appeareth that poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and to delectation. And therefore...
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Textanlässe, Lesetätigkeiten: Poetik und Rhetorik der Unabgeschlossenheit

Detlev Gohrbandt - 1998 - 320 pages
...Bourgeoisietöchter entlockte« (Marx/Engels 1957, 1 1, 426, 428). 2.5 Fair or foul - Alternativstrukturen »Because true history representeth actions and events...and more unexpected and alternative variations. So äs it appeareth that poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality and to delectation.« (Francis...
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Einheit, Abstraktion und literarisches Bewusstsein: Studien zur ...

Philipp Wolf - 1998 - 364 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 (Bacon 1963, III, 343). Und deshalb, so Bacon weiter, it was ever thought to have some participation...
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