 | 1941 - 660 pages
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 | 1994 - 640 pages
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 | 1928 - 162 pages
...of Poesy. Bacon says in the Advancement of Learning: "True history propoundeth the success and issue of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue...retribution and more according to revealed providence." (Edition of 1808, Vol. II, p. 167). Ben Jonson has been referred to as an exponent of the theory because... | |
 | University of Bombay - 1902 - 1102 pages
...of man, poesy feigneth act» and events greater and more heroical : because true history propouadeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable...therefore poesy feigns them more just in retribution ; because true history represcntcln actions and events more ordinary and lose interchanged, therefore... | |
 | 1910 - 940 pages
...called " feigned histdry," and explained its noble charm by the fact that, while " history propoundcth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice," the greater art " feigns them more just in retribution and more according to revealed providence."... | |
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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. 
