 | Samuel Davey - 1879 - 302 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...successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merit of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more just in retribution and more according to... | |
 | Paul Stapfer - 1880 - 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 divineness, because it doth... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1881 - 516 pages
...true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to (consistently with) the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns...according to revealed providence; because true history represented actions and events more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth them with... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 558 pages
...ideal: 'Therefore because the acts or wants of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater...according to revealed Providence; because true history represcnteth actions and events more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore poesy inducth them with... | |
 | James Melville M'Culloch - 1882 - 442 pages
...Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical;...according to revealed providence; because true history represented! actions and events more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth with more... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 pages
...or wants of true history have not that magnitude which satieftcth the mind of man, poesy fi.'igneth acts and events greater and more heroical; because...actions, not so agreeable to the merits of virtue anil vice, therefore poesy feigns them more just in retribution, and more according to revealed Providence;... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 538 pages
...ideal: 'Therefore becanse the aets or wants of true history have not that magnitnde which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical: becanse true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions, not so agreeable to the merits... | |
 | 1883 - 908 pages
...Nature hath joined. Because the acts or events of true history have not the magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, Poesy feigneth acts and events greater...to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore Poesy feignclh them more just in retribution, and more according to revealed Providence : because true history... | |
 | Noah Porter - 1883 - 714 pages
...Therefore, liecause the act: or wants of true history have not that magnitude which eatisfleth the ff Ind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical ; because true history proponndeth the successes and issues of actions, not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice,... | |
 | Charles William Bardeen - 1884 - 828 pages
...magnitude which satisfieth the heart of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroieal; because true history propoundeth the successes and...according to revealed providence ; because true history represeiiteth nctious and events more ordinary, and less interchanged, therefore poesy eudueth them... | |
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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. 
