 | 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... | |
 | Henry Sewall - 1886 - 42 pages
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 | 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 rareness, and more unexpected and alternative variations : so as it appeareth that poesy serveth and couferreth to maguimity, morality,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1887 - 878 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,... | |
 | Philip Sidney - 1890 - 210 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,... | |
 | 1891 - 478 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...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
...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...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... | |
 | Hans Thüme - 1927 - 120 pages
...heroical; because true history propoundeth the success and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more...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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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... 
