 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
 | David Masson - 1856 - 494 pages
...acts and events greater and more heroical ; because true history propoundeth the successes and the issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore Poesy feigneth them more just in retribution, and more according to revealed Providence ; because true history... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1857 - 424 pages
...because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merit of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more...and more according to revealed providence ; because history representeth actions and events more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1859 - 852 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 of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them morejust in retribution, and more according to revealed providence ; because true history ^ representeth... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1857 - 854 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 of virtue tod vice, therefore poesy feigns them more just in retribution, and more according to revealed providence... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1859 - 856 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... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1859 - 508 pages
...feigneth acts and events greater and more hcroical : because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, subservient also, in an eminent degree, to the improvement and happiness of mankind, by the tendency... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1860 - 390 pages
...feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical ; because the history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions, not so agreeable to the merits...more ordinary and less interchanged ; therefore poesy endureth them with more rareness, and more unexpected and alternative variations ; so as it appeareth... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1903 - 872 pages
...poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical. Because history propbundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits...more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore poesy enduetb them with more rareness and more unexpected and alternative variations. So as it nppeareth... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1908 - 898 pages
...poesy f eigneth acts and events greater and more heroical. Because 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 cndueth them with... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1861 - 862 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.... | |
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