 | Francis Bacon - 2002 - 868 pages
...things. Therefore, because the acts or events of true history0 have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater...more heroical; because true history propoundeth the successes0 and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy... | |
 | Kenneth Muir - 2002 - 224 pages
...things. Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfietl! the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical. Because true history propoundetl! the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice,... | |
 | Jonathan Dollimore - 2004 - 420 pages
...a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness . . . than can be found in the nature of things . . . because true history propoundeth the successes and...retribution, and more according to revealed providence. (Advancement, p. 88, my italics) In De Augmentis this suggestion that poetry is agreeable illusion... | |
 | Glyn Lloyd-Hughes - 2005 - 412 pages
...it. 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. In this third part of learning, which is poesy, I can report no deficience. For being as a plant that... | |
 | Émilien Mohsen - 2005 - 628 pages
..."poet-historicall". Bacon has an explanation. A "poet-historicall" is even more important than a true historian: Because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more just in retribution ...... | |
 | Mary Klages - 2006 - 196 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 .... Far from being dangerous and subversive, Bacon concludes, poetry has 'some participation of divineness,'... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1844 - 586 pages
...Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the rnind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and...according to revealed providence : because true history represented) actions and events more ordinary, and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth them... | |
 | 1893 - 520 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...retribution and more according to revealed providence. . . . And therefore poesy was ever thought to have some participation of divineuess, because it doth... | |
 | 1928 - 162 pages
...of Poesy. Bacon says in the Advancement of Learning: "True history propoundeth the success and issue of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue...retribution and more according to revealed providence." (Edition of 1808, Vol. II, p. 167). Ben Jonson has been referred to as an exponent of the theory because... | |
 | University of Bombay - 1902 - 1102 pages
...of man, poesy feigneth act» and events greater and more heroical : because true history propouadeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable...therefore poesy feigns them more just in retribution ; because true history represcntcln actions and events more ordinary and lose interchanged, therefore... | |
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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. 
