 | George Dyer - 1812 - 240 sider
...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,...according to revealed providence : because true history represented! actions and events more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore poetry endued* them... | |
 | George Dyer - 1814 - 320 sider
...Oxford. events greater and more heroical : because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue...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 - 1814 - 316 sider
...acts and events greater and more heroical : because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue...according to revealed providence : because true history representetli actions and events more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth them... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1815 - 160 sider
...acts and events greater and more heroical: because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue...alternative variations ; so as it appeareth, that Pob esy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and to delectation. And therefore it was ever... | |
 | 1843 - 706 sider
...acts and events greater and more heroical ; because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue...according to revealed providence ; because true history represented actions and events more ordinary, and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth them with... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 432 sider
...acts and events greater and more heroical: because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue...unexpected and alternative variations : so as it appeareth poesy serveth and conierreth to magnanimity, morality, and to delectation. And therefore it was ever... | |
 | 1825 - 426 sider
...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...retribution, and more according to revealed Providence: : so as it appeareth, poesy scrvctli to magnanimity, to morality, and to delectation. \nd therefore... | |
 | 1825 - 412 sider
...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 and vice, therefore poesy eigns them more just in retribution, and more according to revealed Providence : so as it appeareth,... | |
 | James Barry - 1831 - 228 sider
...acts and events greater and more heroical; because true historic propoundeth the 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1924 - 202 sider
...Advancement of Learning, Book II. 1v. § 2 : " Because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue...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... | |
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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... 
