 | Noah Porter - 1871 - 406 pagina’s
...wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul. . . . Therefore because the acts or events of true history...successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more just in retribution, and more according... | |
 | Noah Porter - 1871 - 392 pagina’s
...wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul. . . . Therefore because the acts or events of true history...successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more just in retribution, and more according... | |
 | Noah Porter - 1871 - 404 pagina’s
...wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul. . . . Therefore because the acts or events of true history...successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more just in retribution, and more according... | |
 | William Forsyth - 1871 - 366 pagina’s
...What Bacon says of Poetry applies equally to Prose Fiction : " Therefore, because the acts or wants of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth...successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more just in retribution, and more according... | |
 | Alvin B. Kernan - 1989 - 384 pagina’s
...deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul; by reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more...man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroica!.... So as it appeareth that poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and to... | |
 | Mary Beth Rose - 1989 - 256 pagina’s
...fantasies of desire: "because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfied! the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater...successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more just in retribution, and more according... | |
 | Charles Wegener - 1992 - 244 pagina’s
...deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul; by reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man. a more ample greatness, a more...the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts and events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfteth the mind of man. poesy feigneth... | |
 | William A. Covino - 1994 - 208 pagina’s
...spirit, "the world being in proportion inferior to the soul; by reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more...variety, than can be found in the nature of things" (Advancement 2.4.2; 82). 17. For a full discussion of De Quincey's rhetorical theory, see Covino, "Thomas... | |
 | Arthur Davis - 1996 - 374 pagina’s
...deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul; by reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more...which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts greater and more heroical. Because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not... | |
 | Philipp Wolf - 1998 - 364 pagina’s
...Maßgabe göttlicher Vorsehung, dh eine vollkommene Welt. Darin liegt ihre wahre Größe („magnitude"): Therefore, because the acts or events of true history...successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more just in retribution, and more according... | |
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The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul; by reason whereof there is agreeable to the... 
