 | Francis Bacon - 1859 - 852 pagina’s
...greater and more heroical; because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them morejust in retribution, and more according to revealed providence ; because true history ^ representeth... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1859 - 508 pagina’s
...distinguished by a delicacy in the passion of love, and by a humanity and generostherefore poesy feigneth them more just in retribution, and more according to revealed providence : because true history represented actions and events more ordinary, and less interchanged, therefore poesy enduefji them,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1903 - 872 pagina’s
...events greater and more heroical. Because history propbundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore...more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore poesy enduetb them with more rareness and more unexpected and alternative variations. So as it nppeareth... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1860 - 390 pagina’s
...greater and more heroical ; because the history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions, not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice ; therefore...more ordinary and less interchanged ; therefore poesy endureth them with more rareness, and more unexpected and alternative variations ; so as it appeareth... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1908 - 898 pagina’s
...events greater and more heroical. Because history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore...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 pagina’s
...greater and more heroical; because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions, not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore...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 pagina’s
...more jnst in retribution, and more according to revealed providence : because true history represented actions and events more ordinary, and less interchanged,...unexpected and alternative variations : so as it appeareth, poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and to delectation. And therefore it was ever... | |
 | Nathaniel Holmes - 1867 - 670 pagina’s
...greater and more heroical : because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to (consistently with) the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns...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... | |
| |
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... 
