 | Edward George Harman - 1914 - 630 pages
...because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of mind, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical...according to revealed providence ; because true history representetl! actions and events more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth them... | |
 | Archibald Henderson - 1914 - 350 pages
...poetry in contrast to the moral inconclusiveness of real life; as he finely sets it forth, while " history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions...not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice," poetry, which he calls " feigned history," " feigns them more just in retribution and more according... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1915 - 324 pages
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 | 1916 - 608 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. — Adv. Learning, II, iv, 2. And it is such that poesy feigns in Elizabethan tragedy, when it comes... | |
 | Elmer Edgar Stoll - 1919 - 88 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. — Adv. Learning, II, iv, 2. And it is such that poesy feigns in Elizabethan tragedy, when it comes... | |
 | 1922 - 1032 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 true history representeth actions and events more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth them with... | |
 | Schelling anniversary papers - 1923 - 366 pages
...(Defense of Poesy.) 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: ... so as it appeareth that poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and to delectation.... | |
 | Edward George Harman - 1925 - 348 pages
...proceeds : " Therefore because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfyeth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater...to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigneth them more just in retribution and more according to revealed providence ; because true history... | |
 | Albert Harris Tolman - 1925 - 292 pages
...in his "Advancement of Learning" had been equally strenuous in favor of poetical justice. He said: Because true History propoundeth the successes and...just in retribution and more according to revealed Providence.1 'Rymer II, 164. And yet some persons, by a striking mental process, manage to suppose... | |
 | Edward George Harman - 1925 - 352 pages
...successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigneth them more just in retribution and more according to revealed providence ; because true history represents actions and events more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth them with... | |
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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. 
