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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. Because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable... "
The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England - Page 194
by Francis Bacon - 1844
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The Tragedy of Julius Caesar

William Shakespeare - 1902 - 292 pages
...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...according to revealed providence ; because true history representeth actions and events more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth them with...
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Julius Caesar

William Shakespeare - 1902 - 290 pages
...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...according to revealed providence ; because true history representeth actions and events more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth them with...
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Browning for Beginners

Thomas Rain - Browning, Robert, 1812-1889 - 1904 - 246 pages
...events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of mw\, poesy feigneth acts greater and more heroical ; because true history propoundeth...according to revealed providence : because true history representeth actions and events more ordinary, and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth them...
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The Philosophical Works of Francis Bacon

1905 - 958 pages
...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...according to revealed providence ; because true history representeth actions and events more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth them with...
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The Advancement of Learning, Book 2

Francis Bacon - 1910 - 462 pages
...heroica1. Because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable 20 to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy...according to revealed providence. Because true history representeth actions and events more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth them with...
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Poetry and Prose: Being Essays on Modern English Poetry

Adolphus Alfred Jack - English poetry - 1911 - 300 pages
...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...according to revealed providence ; because true history representeth actions and events more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth them with...
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Edmund Spenser and the Impersonations of Francis Bacon

Edward George Harman - Biography & Autobiography - 1914 - 632 pages
...because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of mind, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical...according to revealed providence ; because true history representetl! actions and events more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth them...
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The Theory of Poetry in England: Its Development in Doctrines and Ideas from ...

Richard Pape Cowl - English poetry - 1914 - 346 pages
...heroical ; because ^e'hero'icai true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions than those not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice,...according to revealed providence ; because true history representeth actions and events more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth them with...
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English Critical Essays (sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries ...

Edmund David Jones - Criticism - 1922 - 522 pages
...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...according to revealed Providence ; because true History representeth actions and events more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore Poesy endueth them with...
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A History of English Literature

John Buchan - English literature - 1923 - 746 pages
...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...according to revealed providence. Because true history representeth actions and events more ordinary and less interchanged, therefore poesy endureth them...
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