 | David Nasmith - 1892 - 316 pages
...satisfy his soul, 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. He says that poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and to delectation, and that it... | |
 | David Nasmith - 1892 - 316 pages
...satisfy his soul, 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. He says that poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and to delectation, and that it... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1895 - 430 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...the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable 20 to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more just in retribution, and more... | |
 | Samuel Henry Butcher - 1895 - 418 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 and more heroical ; . . . because true history representeth actions and events more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore Poesy endueth them with... | |
 | Theron Soliman Eugene Dixon - 1895 - 472 pages
...the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poetry feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical ; because true history propoundeth successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poetry... | |
 | William Basil Worsfold - 1897 - 310 pages
...which satisfyeth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical. Because history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions...retribution and more according to revealed providence.' ' Here we have a signal example of the power of learning to raise a man above the limitations of. ."His... | |
 | Wilhelm Kuntz - 1899 - 68 pages
...1571 ed. Blanchemain III, 7. 3 ) because the acts or events have not that magnitude, which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical. Advancement of Learning ed Wright 1873, S. 101. digen ästhetischen Ansichten wie überhaupt die Anfänge... | |
 | 1900 - 454 pages
...Aristotelian. "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 true history representeth actions and events more ordinary and less interchanged; therefore, Poesy endueth them... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Mrs. Henry Pott - 1900 - 318 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 keroical." Touch. : " Truly I would the gods had made thee poetical." And. : " I do not know what poetical... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1910 - 462 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 heroica1. Because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable 20... | |
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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. 
