 | Charles William Bardeen - 1884 - 824 pages
...Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfleth the heart of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical ; because true history propouudcth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1885 - 438 pages
...things. 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...retribution, and more according to revealed providence. j Because true history representeth actions and events more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1134 pages
...acts or wants of true history have not that magnitude which gatisAeth the mind of man, poesy fejgneth good man learned to glow, And |x»e?-y feigns them more just in retribution, and more according to revealed Providence; because true... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1887 - 882 pages
...things. 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 lieroical ; because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to... | |
 | 1891 - 478 pages
...things. 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...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
...things. 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...retribution and more according to revealed providence. . . . And therefore poesy was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth... | |
 | David Nasmith - 1892 - 316 pages
...satisfy his soul, 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. He says that poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and to delectation, and that it... | |
 | David Nasmith - 1892 - 316 pages
...satisfy his soul, 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. He says that poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and to delectation, and that it... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1895 - 430 pages
...things. 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...the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable 20 to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more just in retribution, and more... | |
 | Samuel Henry Butcher - 1895 - 418 pages
...— ' 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 representeth actions and events more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore Poesy endueth them with... | |
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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 just in retribution, and more according to revealed providence. 
