...proportion inferior to the soul; by reason whereof there is agreeable to ' the spirit of man a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety than caw be found in the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not...

...Shakespeare, Milton, Dante, &c. Nis gellir ei gyfieithu heb golli grym a phrydferthwch ei ymadroddion : — Because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude, which satificth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical True history representeth...

...proportion inferior to the soul; by reason whereof there is agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more...found in the nature of things. Therefore, because true history hath not in its acts or events that magnitude, that justness, poesy feigneth acts and...

...proportion inferior to the soul — by reason whereof there is agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more...variety, than can be found in the nature of things." No great poem was produced in that period, when all the elements of poetry, except man's imagination,...

...t " Therefore, because the acts and events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfies the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater...more heroical. Because true history propoundeth the sacrifices and issues of actions, not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy...

...t " Therefore, because the acts and events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfies the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical. Because true history propounded! the sacrifices and issues of actions, not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice,...

...reason whereof there is agreeable to the spirit of man a more ample greatnesse, a more exact goodnesse, and a more absolute variety than can be found in the...things. Therefore, because the acts or events of true historic have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesie faineth acts and events greater...

...has begun, while life is yet to the young clear eye that which poetry is or should be, — "A more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more...variety, than can be found in the nature of things." The teens ! Oh, what a gush of promise is there in that first burst of fervent life into flower ! But...

...may be justly affirmed of the imagination itself. " There is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more...and more heroical ; because true history propoundeth successes and issues of action not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore Poesy feigns...

...is what we call the beau ideal, or /car' e^o^v the ideal—what Bacon so nobly describes as " a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more...variety than can be found in the nature of things, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul, and the exhibition of which doth raise and erect...