 | Nathaniel Holmes - 1867 - 670 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,...serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and delectation. And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it... | |
 | 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
...the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to (consistently with) the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more just in retribution...therefore poesy endueth them with more rareness and more unex(1) Bacon's argument is, that poetry transcends historj%by representing the ideal instead of the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Logic - 1869 - 446 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... | |
 | Noah Porter - Bibliography - 1871 - 406 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 and alternate variation: so it appeareth that poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and... | |
 | Noah Porter - 1871 - 404 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 and alternate variation: so it appeareth that poesy serveth and conferrcth to magnanimity, morality, and... | |
 | Noah Porter - Books and reading - 1871 - 392 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 and alternate variation: so it appeareth that poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and... | |
 | William Forsyth - England - 1871 - 366 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,...more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore poesy indueth them with more rareness, and more unexpected 'and alternative variations; so it appeareth that.... | |
 | William Forsyth - England - 1871 - 388 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,...more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore poesy indueth them with more rareness, and more unexpected and alternative variations; so it appeareth that... | |
 | William Forsyth - England - 1871 - 352 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,...more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore poesy indueth them with more rareness, and more unexpected and alternative variations ; so it appeareth that... | |
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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... 
