 | James Douglas (of Cavers.) - 1839 - 404 pages
...heroical ; because true history propoundeth successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore Poesy feigns them more...just in retribution, and more according to revealed Provi-- dence ; because true history representeth actions and events more ordinary, and less interchanged,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...feigns them more just l Painters aml poets have equal privilège in action. LVoesy— Baffiiclle.] in retribution, and more according to revealed providence...therefore poesy endueth them with more rareness, and more vmexpected and alternative variations : so as it appeareth that, poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity,... | |
 | 1841 - 832 pages
...because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merjts of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more...endueth them with more rareness, and more unexpected and alternative variations ; so as it appcareth that, poesy serveth and confernth to magnanimity, morality,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1841 - 590 pages
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 | Samuel Tyler - 1844 - 214 pages
...because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more...endueth them with more rareness and more unexpected and alternative variations: so as it appeareth that poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 730 pages
...because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more...endueth them with more rareness, and more unexpected and alternative variations : so as it appeareth that, poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 778 pages
...because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more...interchanged, therefore poesy endueth them with more rareness, ami more unexpected and alternative variations : so as it appeareth that, poesy serveth and conferreth... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1847 - 366 pages
...Because true history propoundeth the sacrifices and issues of actions, not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more...endueth them with more rareness, and more unexpected and alternative variations ; so it appeareth that poetry serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1847 - 360 pages
...sacrifices and issues of actions, not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigus them more just in retribution, and more according...endueth them with more rareness, and more unexpected and alternative variations ; so it appeareth that poetry serveth and couferreth to magnanimity, morality... | |
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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... 
