 | Joseph Napier - 1864 - 350 lapas
...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...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,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1866 - 514 lapas
...more jnst in retribution, and more according to revealed providence : because true history represented actions and events more ordinary, and less interchanged,...endueth them with more rareness, and more unexpected and alternative variations : so as it appeareth, poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality,... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 lapas
...propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to (consistently with) the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more...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... | |
 | English authors - 1869 - 458 lapas
...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...endueth them with more rareness, and more unexpected and alternative variations. So as it appeareth that poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1869 - 446 lapas
...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...according to revealed providence. Because true history represented! actions and events more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth them with... | |
 | Noah Porter - 1871 - 404 lapas
...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...variation: so it appeareth that poesy serveth and conferrcth to magnanimity, morality, and delectation. Ano^ therefore, it was ever thought to bear some... | |
 | William Forsyth - 1871 - 372 lapas
...because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not eo agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more...more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore poesy indueth them with more rareness, and more unexpected and alternative .variations; so it appeareth that... | |
 | William Forsyth - 1871 - 366 lapas
...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...more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore poesy indueth them with more rareness, and more unexpected 'and alternative variations; so it appeareth that.... | |
 | William Forsyth - 1871 - 352 lapas
...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...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... 
