| Philip Sidney - 2002 - 286 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...issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of vittue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more just in retribution, and more according to revealed... | |
| Francis Bacon - 2002 - 868 pages
...things. Therefore, because the acts or events of true history0 have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater...more heroical; because true history propoundeth the successes0 and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy... | |
| Kenneth Muir - 2002 - 224 pages
...things. Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfietl! the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical. Because true history propoundetl! the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice,... | |
| John Harris - 2003 - 484 pages
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| Francis Bacon - 2003 - 488 pages
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| Jonathan Dollimore - 2004 - 420 pages
...a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness . . . than can be found in the nature of things . . . because true history propoundeth the successes and...retribution, and more according to revealed providence. (Advancement, p. 88, my italics) In De Augmentis this suggestion that poetry is agreeable illusion... | |
| Philip Sidney - 2004 - 548 pages
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| Francis Bacon - 2005 - 212 pages
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| Glyn Lloyd-Hughes - 2005 - 412 pages
...it. 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. In this third part of learning, which is poesy, I can report no deficience. For being as a plant that... | |
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