 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1859 - 616 pages
...things. Therefore, because the acts or events ol true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical : because true history propoundelh the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice,... | |
 | 1859 - 690 pages
...poetry he says, "Because the acts and events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical." In all ages men have felt a yearning after " a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness than can... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1859 - 508 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 hcroical : because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1908 - 898 pages
...which satisfieth the mind of men, poesy f eigneth acts and events greater and more heroical. Because history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions...according to revealed providence. Because true history represented actions and events more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore poesy cndueth them with... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1860 - 336 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 propouudeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merit of virtue and vice, therefore... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1860 - 390 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 the history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions, not so agreeable to the merits of virtue... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1862 - 728 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 beroical : because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to... | |
 | Joseph Napier - 1864 - 350 pages
...Therefore (saith he) 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." What feeds the imagination of the poet, nourishes the faith of the Christian. We find in the present,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1866 - 514 pages
...things. Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not thai magni aide which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater...not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice. subservient also, in an eminent degree, to the improvement and happiness of mankind, by the tendency... | |
 | 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,... | |
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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. 
