Dramatical or representative poesy is, as it were, a visible history; for it sets out the image of things as if they were present.


Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical (1917)

Francis Bacon Quotes

Dramatical or representative poesy is, as it were, a visible history; for it sets out the image of things as if they were present.

Dramatical or representative poesy is, as it were, a visible history; for it sets out the image of things as if they were present.

Dramatical or representative poesy is, as it were, a visible history; for it sets out the image of things as if they were present.

Dramatical or representative poesy is, as it were, a visible history; for it sets out the image of things as if they were present.