| Tobias Smollett - Books - 1814 - 718 pages
...where be ibund in nature, is pleasingto the mind. And as real history gives us — not the success <if things according to the deserts of vice and virtue,...fiction corrects it, and presents us with the fates and, for tunes of persons, rewarded or punished., according to merit. And as real history disgusts us with... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1815 - 324 pages
...have not that grandeur which satisfies the jnmd, poetry steps in, and feigns more heroical actions. And as real history gives us not the success of things, according to the deserts of virtue and vice ; poe* Upon this head consult the judicious French critic, Bossu du Poe'me Epique.... | |
| Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1820 - 570 pages
...order, and a more beautiful variety, than can any Adhere be found in nature, to be pleasing to the mind. As real history gives us not the success of things...deserts of vice and virtue, fiction corrects it, and displays to us the fates and fortunes of persons rewarded or punished according to their merit; —... | |
| Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1820 - 570 pages
...order, and a more beautiful variety, than can anywhere be found in nature, to be pleasing to the mind. As real history gives us not the success of things...deserts of vice and virtue, fiction corrects it, and displays to us the fates and fortunes of persons rewarded or punished according to their merit ; —... | |
| 1821 - 536 pages
...things, of which it cannot obtain the substance. As real history gives us not the success of titings according to the deserts of vice and virtue, fiction corrects it, and displays to us the fates and fortunes of persons rewarded or punished, according to their merit. Fiction... | |
| William Harper - Slavery - 1836 - 38 pages
...real history gives us not the success of things according to the deserts of virtue and vice, poetry corrects it, and presents us with the fates and fortunes...with a familiar and constant similitude of things, poetry relieves us by unexpected turns and changes, and thus not only delights, but inculcates morality... | |
| William Harper - Slavery - 1836 - 23 pages
...history, have not the grandeur which satisfies the mind, poetry steps in and feigns more heroical actions. And as real history gives us not the success of things according to the deserts of virtue and vice, poetry corrects it, and presents us with the fates and fortunes of persons rewarded... | |
| Rowland Smith - English literature - 1855 - 552 pages
...likewise be the vehicles of sound sense and profitable instruction. "As real -History," says Bacon, "gives us not the success of things according to the deserts of vice and virtue, Fiction connects it, and presents us with the fates and fortunes of persons, rewarded or punished according... | |
| Francis Bacon - Induction (Logic) - 1872 - 602 pages
...have not that grandeur which satisfies the mind, poetry steps in and feigns more heroical actions. And as real history gives us not the success of things according to the deserts of virtue and vice, poetry corrects it, and presents us with the fates and fortunes of persons rewarded... | |
| Heliodorus (of Emesa.) - 1889 - 576 pages
...vehicles of sound sense and profitable instruction. "As real History" says Bacon, "gives us not t'ae success of things according to the deserts of vice and virtue Fiction connects it, and presents us with the fates and for• tunes of persons, rewarded or punished according... | |
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