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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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An English Anthology of Prose and Poetry, Shewing the Main Stream of English ...

Sir Henry John Newbolt - 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...
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Schelling Anniversary Papers

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....
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The "impersonality" of Shakespeare

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...
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Falstaff and Other Shakespearean Topics, Volume 10

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...
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The "impersonality" of Shakespeare

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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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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