 | 1853 - 604 pages
...variety than can be found in the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind...feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical; because true history propoundeth the successes and the issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 pages
...variety, than can be found in the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind...feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical ; because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1877 - 394 pages
...variety, than can be found in the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind...feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical ; because the history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions, not so agreeable to the merits... | |
 | David Masson - 1856 - 494 pages
...variety than can be found in the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind...feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical ; because true history propoundeth the successes and the issues of actions not so agreeable to the... | |
 | David Masson - 1856 - 528 pages
...things. Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfleth the mind of man, Poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical ; because true history propoundeth the successes and the issues of actions not so agreeable to the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1857 - 854 pages
...variety, than can be found in the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind...feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical ; because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1857 - 424 pages
...variety, than can be found in the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind...feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical ; because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merit... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1859 - 852 pages
...variety, than can be found in the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind...feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical; because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1859 - 856 pages
...variety, than can be found in the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind...feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical ; because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits... | |
 | 1859 - 690 pages
...deeper than this. In his famous passage on poetry he says, "Because the acts and events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind...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... | |
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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 propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable... 
