 | Émilien Mohsen - 2005 - 628 pages
..."poet-historicall". Bacon has an explanation. A "poet-historicall" is even more important than a true historian: Because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more just in retribution ...... | |
 | Paul Stapfer - 2006 - 496 pages
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 | Dugald Stewart - 2006 - 504 pages
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 | Aristotle - 2006 - 460 pages
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 | Mary Klages - 2006 - 196 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 heroical .... Far from being dangerous and subversive, Bacon concludes, poetry has 'some participation of divineness,'... | |
 | Thomas Docherty - 2008 - 200 pages
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 | Francis Bacon - 1844 - 586 pages
...Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the rnind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and...according to revealed providence : because true history represented) actions and events more ordinary, and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth them... | |
 | 1893 - 520 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 divineuess, because it doth... | |
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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. 
