 | George Dyer - English poetry - 1812 - 240 pages
...I'oesi IItbra;orum Pralect. lect. i. not that magnitude which satisfied! the mind of man, poesy feignefh acts and events greater and more heroical : because...true history propoundeth the successes and issues of action not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more just in... | |
 | George Dyer - Cambridge (England) - 1814 - 316 pages
...things. 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...according to revealed providence : because true history representetli actions and events more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth them... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1815 - 156 pages
...things. 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 propounded! the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice,... | |
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1843 - 706 pages
...things. 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...according to revealed providence ; because true history represented actions and events more ordinary, and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth them with... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth act& and events greater and more heroical : because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actionsnot so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more just in... | |
 | Literature - 1825 - 412 pages
...distinguishes him equally on subjects of taste as in philosophy, " have not that magnitude which satistieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical; because :rue history propoundeth the successes and ssucs of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue... | |
 | Literature - 1825 - 426 pages
...taste as in philosophy, "have not Hi. 1 1 magnitude which satisueth the mind of man, poesy fcigneth acts and events greater and more heroical; because true history propoundeth the successes and ssues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more... | |
 | James Barry - 1831 - 228 pages
...satisfieth the mind of man, poesy faineth acts and events greater and more heroical; because true historic propoundeth the successes and issues of actions, not...agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesie fains them more just in retribution, and more according to revealed providence. Because true... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1924 - 202 pages
...vi. 86 ; Antony and Cleopatra, nI. v. 6 ; Bacon, The Advancement of Learning, Book II. 1v. § 2 : " Because true history propoundeth the successes and...therefore poesy feigns them more just in retribution," etc. W. A. Wright says that success " was formerly a colourless word, which required to be defined... | |
 | 1837 - 352 pages
...and Poetry. — Because thrt 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 propomideth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice,... | |
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Because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice. therefore poesy feigns them more just in retribution, and more according to revealed providence. 
