 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...  American Anthropologist - Page 1221893Full view - About this book
 | George Dyer - English poetry - 1812 - 240 pages
...I'oesi IItbra;orum Pralect. lect. i. not that magnitude which satisfied! the mind of man, poesy feignefh acts and events greater and more heroical : because...true history propoundeth the successes and issues of action not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more just in... | |
 | George Dyer - Cambridge (England) - 1814 - 316 pages
...the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts, or events of true history, have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts...retribution, and more according to revealed providence : because true history representetli actions and events more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore... | |
 | George Dyer - Cambridge (England) - 1814 - 394 pages
...of Milton. The biographer admits that Cambridge has produced a richer harvest of poetry than Oxford. events greater and more heroical : because true history...retribution, and more according to revealed providence : because true history representeth actions and events more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1815 - 160 pages
...the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, Poesy feigneth acts...retribution, and more according to revealed providence : because true history representeth actions and events more ordinary, and less interchanged, therefore... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1815 - 156 pages
...the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, Poesy feigneth acts...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,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 pages
...the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts...retribution, and more according to revealed providence : because true history representeth actions and events more ordinary, and less interchanged ; therefore... | |
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1843 - 706 pages
...the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts...retribution, and more according to revealed providence ; because true history represented actions and events more ordinary, and less interchanged, therefore... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1824 - 642 pages
...the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts...retribution, and more according to revealed providence : because true history representeth actions and events more ordinary, and less interchanged ; therefore... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts...retribution, and more according to revealed providence : because true history representeth actions and events more ordinary, and less interchanged ; therefore... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Logic - 1825 - 432 pages
...things. Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfied! the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater...retribution, and more according to revealed providence: because true history representeth actions and events more ordinary, and less interchanged, therefore... | |
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