 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...  The Descent of Liberty: A Mask - xvii. lappuseautors: Leigh Hunt - 1815 - 82 lapasPilnskats - Par šo grāmatu
 | Francis Bacon - 1859 - 852 lapas
...of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical; because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable...merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them morejust in retribution, and more according to revealed providence ; because true history ^ representeth... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1857 - 424 lapas
...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1857 - 854 lapas
...of man, poesy feigneth 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 tod vice, therefore poesy feigns them more just in retribution, and more according to revealed providence... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1859 - 508 lapas
...of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more hcroical : because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, subservient also, in an eminent degree, to the improvement and happiness of mankind, by the tendency... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1908 - 898 lapas
...mind of men, poesy f eigneth acts and events greater and more heroical. Because history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable...according to revealed providence. Because true history represented actions and events more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore poesy cndueth them with... | |
 | Joseph Napier - 1864 - 350 lapas
...of man, poesy feigneth acts and events, greater and more heroical; because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions, not so agreeable...retribution and more according to revealed Providence." What feeds the imagination of the poet, nourishes the faith of the Christian. We find in the present,... | |
 | Nathaniel Holmes - 1867 - 636 lapas
...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,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1869 - 446 lapas
...oOnajS7P.9. e .sy,f e '{j ne rt 1 acts and events greater and more heroical. Because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable...according to revealed providence. Because true history represented! actions and events more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth them with... | |
 | Iowa. General Assembly - 1872 - 964 lapas
...mind of man, poesy feignth acts and events greater and more heroical; because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable,...according to revealed providence ; because true history represented! actions and events more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth them with... | |
 | 1859 - 446 lapas
...feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical, because true history propoundeth the successes and the issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigneth them more just in retribution, and more according to revealed Providence ; because true history... | |
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