 | Samuel Tyler - 1844 - 214 pages
...events greater and more heroical: because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice,...according to revealed providence: because true history representeth actions and events more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth them with... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 730 pages
...events greater and more heroical : because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice,...according to revealed providence : because true history representeth actions and events more ordinary, and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth them... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1847 - 366 pages
...events greater and moreheroical. Because true history propoundeth the sacrifices and issues of actions, not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice,...according to revealed providence. Because true history representeth actions and events more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth them with... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1847 - 360 pages
...events greater and more heroical. Because true history propoundeth the sacrifices and issues of actions, not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigus them more just in retribution, and more according to revealed providence. Because true history... | |
 | Henrietta Joan Fry - 1848 - 304 pages
...events greater and more heroical: because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice,...according to revealed providence : because true history representeth actions and events more ordinary, and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth them... | |
 | James Barry, John Opie, Henry Fuseli - 1848 - 586 pages
...successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesie fains them more just in retribution, and more according to revealed providence. Because true historie representeth actions more ordinarie and less interchanged, there poesie endueth them with... | |
 | John Harris - 1849 - 526 pages
...of man, Poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical ; because true history propoundeth successes and issues of action not so agreeable to...retribution, and more according to revealed Providence. And therefore it was even thought to have some participation of,, divineness, because it doth raise... | |
 | Henry Wright Phillott - 1849 - 224 pages
...events, greater and more heroical : because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice,...according to revealed providence : because true history representeth actions and events more ordinary, and less interchanged ; therefore poesy endueth them... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 pages
...events greater and more heroical: because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of , actions hile continued ; and after, in the beginning of Midsummer term, I attending her, and findin re- • tribution, and more according to revealed providence : because true history representeth actions... | |
 | Maria Georgina Shirreff Grey, Emily Anne Eliza Shirreff - 1851 - 496 pages
...events greater and more heroical ; because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice,...according to revealed providence ; because true history representeth actions and events more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth them with... | |
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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... 
