 | George Dyer - 1814 - 320 pages
...events greater and more heroical : because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice,...according to revealed providence : because true history representeth actions and events more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth them with... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1815 - 156 pages
...events greater and more heroical: because true history propounded! the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice,...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.) - 1819 - 648 pages
...events greater and more heroical : because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice,...according to revealed providence : because true history representeth actions and events more ordinary, and less interchanged ; therefore poesy endueth them... | |
 | 1843 - 706 pages
...events greater and more heroical ; because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice,...events more ordinary, and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth them with more rareness, and more unexpected and alternative variations ; so, as it appeareth,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1824 - 642 pages
...events greater and more heroical : because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice,...according to revealed providence : because true history representeth actions and events more ordinary, and less interchanged ; therefore poesy endueth them... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...events greater and more heroical : because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice,...according to revealed providence : because true history representeth actions and events more ordinary, and less interchanged ; therefore poesy endueth them... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 432 pages
...events greater and more heroical: because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice,...according to revealed providence: because true history representeth actions and events more ordinary, and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth them... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...greater and more heroical : because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actionsnot so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore...according to revealed providence: because true history representeth actions and events more ordinary, and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth them... | |
 | 1825 - 426 pages
...events greater and more heroical; because true history propoundeth the successes and ssues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice,...retribution, and more according to revealed Providence: : so as it appeareth, poesy scrvctli to magnanimity, to morality, and to delectation. \nd therefore... | |
 | 1825 - 412 pages
...events greater and more heroical; because :rue history propoundeth the successes and ssucs of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy eigns them more just in retribution, and more according to revealed Providence : so as it appeareth,... | |
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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... 
