 | Lily Bess Campbell - 2005 - 368 pages
...successes and issues of actions, not so agreeable to the merits of Vertue and Vice, therefore Poesie faines them more just in Retribution, and more according to Revealed Providence, because true Historic reprcsenteth Actions and Events, more ordinarie and lesse interchanged, therefore Poesie endueth them... | |
 | Noah Porter - 1869 - 704 pages
...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 ; because true history representeth actions and events more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore poesy indueth... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1928 - 506 pages
...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; because true history representeth actions and events more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth... | |
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... 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 to... 
