 | George Dyer - 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 - 1814 - 394 pages
...greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found in the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts, or events of true history,...satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and • See Bishop Newton's Life of Milton. The biographer admits that Cambridge has produced a richer... | |
 | George Dyer - 1814 - 320 pages
...greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found in the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts, or events of true history, have not that magnitude which satisfitth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and » See Bishop Newton's Life of Milton. The biographer... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1815 - 156 pages
...greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found in the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts or events of true history...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 - 1825 - 524 pages
...greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more .absolute variety, than can be found in the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts or events of true history...magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth act& and events greater and more heroical : because true history propoundeth the successes and issues... | |
 | 1825 - 426 pages
...taste as in philosophy, "have not Hi. 1 1 magnitude which satisueth the mind of man, poesy fcigneth acts and events greater and more heroical; because true history propoundeth the successes and ssues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more... | |
 | 1825 - 412 pages
...distinguishes him equally on subjects of taste as in philosophy, " have not that magnitude which satistieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical; because :rue history propoundeth the successes and ssucs of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 432 pages
...greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolnte variety, than can be found in the nature of 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 and more heroical: because true... | |
 | James Barry - 1831 - 228 pages
...satisfieth the mind of man, poesy faineth acts and events greater and more heroical; because true historic propoundeth the successes and issues of actions, not...agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesie fains them more just in retribution, and more according to revealed providence. Because true... | |
 | Robert Montgomery - 1832 - 526 pages
...greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found in the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts or events of true history...mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater - II ya toujours dans les iictions poeYiqucs no>• iorte de logiqui cackfe; dies doivent etre en accord... | |
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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. 
