 | Nathaniel Holmes - 1867 - 636 pages
...Bacon also says, again, comparing poetry with history as a mode of representing acts, or events, " poesy feigns them more just in retribution and more according to revealed providence." And what Schlegel said of Shakespeare may be said as well, — nay, rather better, — of Bacon himself,... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to (consistently with) the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns...according to revealed providence; because true history representeth actions and events more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth them with... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1869 - 446 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 ernative variations. So as it appeareth... | |
 | English authors - 1869 - 458 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... | |
 | Noah Porter - 1871 - 392 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... | |
 | William Forsyth - 1871 - 388 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 indueth them with... | |
 | Noah Porter - 1871 - 404 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... | |
 | William Forsyth - 1871 - 352 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 indueth them with... | |
 | Noah Porter - 1871 - 406 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... | |
 | William Forsyth - 1871 - 366 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 indueth 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... 
