| George Dyer - English poetry - 1812 - 240 pages
...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 retribution,...according to revealed providence : because true history represented! actions and events more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore poetry endued* them... | |
| George Dyer - Cambridge (England) - 1814 - 320 pages
...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,...endueth them with more rareness, and more unexpected variation, so as it appeareth, that poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and delectation*."... | |
| George Dyer - Cambridge (England) - 1814 - 316 pages
...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,...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
...history propounded! the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore Poesy feigns them more just in retribution,...alternative variations ; so as it appeareth, that Pob esy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and to delectation. And therefore it was ever... | |
| North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1843 - 706 pages
...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,...according to revealed providence ; because true history represented actions and events more ordinary, and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth them with... | |
| Francis Bacon - Logic - 1825 - 432 pages
...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,...unexpected and alternative variations : so as it appeareth poesy serveth and conierreth to magnanimity, morality, and to delectation. And therefore it was ever... | |
| Literature - 1825 - 426 pages
...history propoundeth the successes and ssues 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: : so as it appeareth, poesy scrvctli to magnanimity, to morality, and to delectation. \nd therefore... | |
| James Barry - 1831 - 228 pages
...successes and issues of actions, not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesie fains them more just in retribution, and more according to revealed providence. Because true historic representeth actions more ordinarie and less interchanged; there poesie endueth them with... | |
| 1837 - 352 pages
...history propomideth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more just in retribution,...according to revealed providence; because true history represeuteth actions and events more ordinary, and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth them... | |
| James Douglas (of Cavers.) - Philosophy - 1839 - 406 pages
...true history propoundeth successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore Poesy feigns them more just in retribution,...serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and delectation. And therefore it was even thought to have some participation of divineness, because it... | |
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