 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 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 (visct. St. Albans.) - 1852 - 238 pages
...ad Fam. ix. 16; and Sueton. Vit. Cacs. « Hor. Ep. ad Pis. 9. • Divisions of Poetrg. 81 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... | |
 | 1853 - 604 pages
...greater and more heroical; because true history propoundeth the successes and the 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 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,...events more ordinary, and less interchanged ; therefore poesy endueth them with more rareness, and more unexpected and alternative variations : sp as it appeareth... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1877 - 394 pages
...events greater and more heroical ; because the 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 endureth them... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 514 pages
...distinguished by a delicacy in the passion of love, and by a humanity and generostherefore poesy foigneth them more just in retribution, and more according to revealed providence : because true history representeth actions jind events more ordinary, and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth them... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1855 - 530 pages
...distinguished by a delicacy in the passion of love, and by a humanity and generosthercfore poesy feigncth them more just in retribution, and more according...events more ordinary, and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth them with more rareness, and more unexpected and alternative variations : so as it appeareth,... | |
 | David Masson - 1856 - 528 pages
...greater and more heroical ; because true history propoundeth the successes and the 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... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1857 - 424 pages
...because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merit of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more...and more according to revealed providence ; because history representeth actions and events more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1857 - 854 pages
...history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue tod vice, therefore poesy feigns them more just in retribution,...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... 
