 | Samuel Davey - 1879 - 302 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... | |
 | Paul Stapfer - 1880 - 428 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. . . . And therefore poesy was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1881 - 516 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...events more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth them with more rareness and more unex(1) Bacon's argument is, that poetry transcends... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1881 - 104 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... | |
 | James Melville M'Culloch - 1882 - 442 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 with more rareness and more unexpected and alternative variations. So it appeareth that... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 558 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 represcnteth actions and events more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore poesy inducth them with... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 pages
...history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions, not so agreeable to the merits of virtue anil vice, therefore poesy feigns them more just in retribution,...according to revealed Providence; because true history represcnteth actions and events more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore poesy inducth ihcm with... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 538 pages
...events greater and more heroical: becanse true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions, not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more jnst in retribution, wnd more according to revealed Providence; because true history representelb aetions... | |
 | Noah Porter - 1883 - 714 pages
...events greater and more heroical ; because true history proponndeth the successes and issues of actions, not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns tbem more just in retribution, and more according to revealed Providence ; because true history repreMnteth... | |
 | 1883 - 908 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 feignclh them more just in retribution, and more according to revealed Providence : because true history... | |
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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... 
