 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...  Legislative Documents - 103. lappuseautors: Iowa. General Assembly - 1872Pilnskats - Par šo grāmatu
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1903 - 872 lapas
...mind of men, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical. Because history propbundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable...according to revealed providence. Because true history representeth actions and events more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore poesy enduetb them with... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1861 - 860 lapas
...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...according to revealed providence ; because true history representeth actions and events more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth them with... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1862 - 728 lapas
...magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more beroical : because true history propoundeth the successes and...according to revealed providence : because true history representeth actions and events more ordinary, and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth them... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1863 - 264 lapas
...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...according to revealed providence: because true history representeth actions and events more ordinary, and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth them... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1864 - 464 lapas
...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...according to revealed providence ; because true history representeth actions and events more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth them with... | |
 | Joseph Napier - 1864 - 350 lapas
...events, of true history, have not that magnitude, which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events, greater and more heroical; because...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
...or events of true history have not thai magni aide which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical : because...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... | |
 | Nathaniel Holmes - 1867 - 670 lapas
...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...according to revealed providence : because true history representeth actions and events more ordinary, and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth them... | |
 | 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
...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...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... | |
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