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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. "
The Two Books of Francis, Lord Verulam: Of the Proficience and Advancement ... - Page 142
by Francis Bacon - 1825 - 402 pages
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Beiträge zur Geschichte des Geniebegriffs in England

Hans Thüme - 1927 - 120 pages
...poesy feigueth acts and events greater and more heroical; because true history proponndeth the snccess and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits...representeth actions and events more ordinary and less intercbanged , therefore poesy endueth them with more rareness, 40 die Worte gebunden, aber in allen...
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Studien zur englischen Philologie, Issue 71

Hans Thüme - 1927 - 120 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...more heroical; because true history propoundeth the success and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns...
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Beiträge zur Geschichte des Geniebegriffs in England

Hans Thüme - 1927 - 122 pages
...things. Therefore, because the acts or events of trne history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical; becanse true history propoundeth the snccess and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of...
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Shakespeare Studies: Historical and Comparative in Method

Elmer Edgar Stoll - 1927 - 528 pages
...observes, save to 'increase the tension of the spectators' anxiety' (p. 332). 1 ' See section 4 above. mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical.' 10. One would think that Mr Walkley's essay should surely have killed the error — nay, 'one would...
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Elizabethan Verse and Prose (non-dramatic)

George Reuben Potter - 1928 - 640 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...to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy 2 " Painters and poets have always been allowed to take what liberties they would." feigns them more...
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Expression in America

Ludwig Lewisohn - 1932 - 672 pages
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 105

1910 - 872 pages
...Learning. Poetry he called " feigned history," and explained its noble charm by the fact that, while " D̈% > K jba' ^ ]e ev $ co X M*L 鴜 ... .c 9 E ; \ T ٨ 2b G N: X # ʶ % the greater art " feigns them more just in retribution and more according to revealed providence."...
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The Story of American Literature

Ludwig Lewisohn - 1932 - 668 pages
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The Divine Science

Leah Jonas - 1940 - 316 pages
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Shakespeare and Other Masters

Elmer Edgar Stoll - 1940 - 482 pages
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