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... Faust: A Tragedy - Page 6by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1847 - 8 pagesFull view - About this book
| George Dyer - 1812 - 240 pages
...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,...according to revealed providence : because true history represented! actions and events more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore poetry endued* them... | |
| George Dyer - 1814 - 320 pages
...poetry than Oxford. events greater and more heroical : because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits...endueth them with more rareness, and more unexpected variation, so as it appeareth, that poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and delectation*."... | |
| George Dyer - 1814 - 316 pages
...feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical : because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits...according to revealed providence : because true history representetli actions and events more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth them... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1815 - 160 pages
...feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical: because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits...and more unexpected and alternative variations ; so as it appeareth, that Pob esy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and to delectation.... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 pages
...feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical : because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits...and more unexpected and alternative variations : so as it appeareth that poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and to delectation. And... | |
| 1843 - 706 pages
...feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical ; because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits...according to revealed providence ; because true history represented actions and events more ordinary, and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth them with... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1824 - 642 pages
...feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical : because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits...and more unexpected and alternative variations : so as it appeareth that poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and to delectation. And... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1825 - 432 pages
...feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical: because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits...and more unexpected and alternative variations : so as it appeareth poesy serveth and conierreth to magnanimity, morality, and to delectation. And therefore... | |
| George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical : because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits...and more unexpected and alternative variations : so as it appeareth that poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and to delectation. And... | |
| 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...and. more unexpected and alternative variations: so as it appeareth that, poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and to delectation. And... | |
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