 | Nathaniel Holmes - 1867 - 636 pages
...Bacon also says, again, comparing poetry with history as a mode of representing acts, or events, " poesy feigns them more just in retribution and more according to revealed providence." And what Schlegel said of Shakespeare may be said as well, — nay, rather better, — of Bacon himself,... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 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...successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to (consistently with) the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more just in retribution... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1869 - 446 pages
...of true history have not that magnitude which satisfleth the mind oOnajS7P.9. e .sy,f e '{j ne rt 1 acts and events greater and more heroical. Because...according to revealed providence. Because true history represented! actions and events more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth them with... | |
 | William Forsyth - 1871 - 372 pages
...Fiction: " Therefore, because the acts or wants of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater...propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not eo agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more just in retribution,... | |
 | Iowa. General Assembly - 1872 - 964 pages
...acts or events of trae history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feignth acts and events greater and more heroical; because...according to revealed providence ; because true history represented! actions and events more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth them with... | |
 | 1859 - 446 pages
...follows: — " 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 - 1873 - 438 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...of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue -sxA Nice, \\veiefore poesy feigns them more just in retribution, and more according to revealed providence.... | |
 | Noah Porter - 1873 - 722 pages
...divine. " Therefore, because the acts or wants of true history have not that magnitude which satiafleth the mind of man. poesy feigneth acts and events greater...more heroical ; because true history propoundeth the •ucceescs and issues of actions, not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy... | |
 | David Masson - 1874 - 338 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... | |
 | Thomas Davies King - 1875 - 202 pages
...Poetry! * " Because the acts and events of true " history have not that magnitude which satis" fieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and " events...them more just in retribution and more " according to real providence. 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. 
