 | Homer Nearing - 1945 - 242 pages
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 | Homer Nearing - 1945 - 230 pages
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 | Samuel Henry Butcher, Aristotle, John Gassner - 1951 - 516 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... | |
 | Samuel Henry Butcher, Aristotle, John Gassner - 1951 - 516 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 herolcal ; . . . because true history representeth actions and events more ordinary and less interchanged,... | |
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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. 
