 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1852 - 236 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...true history propoundeth the successes and issues 7 Vicl. Cic. ad Fam. ix. 16; and Sueton. Vit. Cacs. « Hor. Ep. ad Pis. 9. • Divisions of Poetrg.... | |
 | 1853 - 604 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...because true history propoundeth the successes and the issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore Poesy feigneth them... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 pages
...things. Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth represented actions and events more ordinary, and less interchanged ; therefore poesy endueth them... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 514 pages
...or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy fcigneth acts and events greater and more heroical : because...not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, subservient also, in an eminent degree, to the improvement and happiness of mankind, by the tendency... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1877 - 394 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 ; because the history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions, not so agreeable to the merits of virtue... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1855 - 530 pages
...or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisficth the mind of man, poesy feigncth acts and events greater and more heroical: because...successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to tho merits of virtue and vice, subservient also, in an eminent degree, to the improvement and happiness... | |
 | David Masson - 1856 - 494 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...because true history propoundeth the successes and the issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore Poesy feigneth them... | |
 | David Masson - 1856 - 528 pages
...things. Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfleth the mind of man, Poesy feigneth acts and events greater...because true history propoundeth the successes and the issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore Poesy feigneth them... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1859 - 850 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...merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them morejust in retribution, and more according to revealed providence ; because true history ^ representeth... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1857 - 854 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...of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue tod vice, therefore poesy 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. 
