 | Francis Bacon - 1859 - 852 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, therefore poesy feigns them morejust in retribution, and more according to revealed providence ; because true history ^ representeth... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1859 - 856 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... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1859 - 508 pages
...distinguished by a delicacy in the passion of love, and by a humanity and generostherefore poesy feigneth them more just in retribution, and more according...events more ordinary, and less interchanged, therefore poesy enduefji them, with more rareness, and more unexpected and alternative variations ; so as it... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1908 - 898 pages
...and events greater and more heroical. Because 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 cndueth them with more rareness and more unexpected and alternative variations. So as it appeareth... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1860 - 390 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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1903 - 872 pages
...and events greater and more heroical. Because history propbundeth 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 enduetb them with... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1861 - 862 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1864 - 464 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... | |
 | Joseph Napier - 1864 - 350 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,...retribution and more according to revealed Providence." What feeds the imagination of the poet, nourishes the faith of the Christian. We find in the present,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1866 - 514 pages
...delicacy in the passion of love, and by a humanity and generostherefore poesy feigneth them more jnst in retribution, and more according to revealed providence...events more ordinary, and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth them with more rareness, and more unexpected and alternative variations : so as it appeareth,... | |
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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... 
