The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul... The Messiah: A Poem in Six Books - Página 294por Robert Montgomery - 1832 - 300 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Edmund Burke - 1877 - 660 páginas
...sink, and that, in the words of Lord Bacon, the use of art "hath been and is to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it." The number of pictorial works hung this year was 1,346. This is slightly below the average of five years.... | |
| 1795 - 758 páginas
...this feigned hiftofy hath been td give fome fhadow of fatisfaflion to the mind of man in thofe point?, wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being, in proportion, inferior to the foul; by reafon whereof there is, agreeable to the fpiritof many a more ample greatnefs, a more exaft... | |
| George Dyer - 1812 - 240 páginas
...with much dignity and effect : " The use of this feigned history hath been to give -*some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points, wherein...reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of roan, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more ample variety, than can be found in... | |
| George Dyer - 1814 - 320 páginas
...styled as well in prose as poetry. " The use of this feigned History hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man, in those points wherein...-the nature of things doth deny it, the world being inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness,... | |
| George Dyer - 1814 - 316 páginas
...prose as poetry. " The use of this feigned History hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to tbe mind of man, in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness,... | |
| 1865 - 804 páginas
...the words of Lord Bacon, ask, Where are the works which, as feigned histories, " give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it " ? where are the pictures which testify that " the world is in proportion inferior to the soul, and... | |
| 1865 - 790 páginas
...the words of Lord Bacon, ask, Where are the works which, as feigned histories, " give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it " ? where are the pictures which testify that " the world is in proportion inferior to the soul, and... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1825 - 432 páginas
...styled as well in prose as in verse. >/ The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein...ample 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... | |
| James Barry - 1831 - 228 páginas
...remarks most admirably and justly. " The use of thisfained historic hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points, wherein the nature of things doth denie it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soule: by reason whereof there is agreeable... | |
| Henry Rogers - 1838 - 150 páginas
...of Lord Bacon, contained in his " Advancement of Learning," that it is a " feigned history, designed to give some satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it — to raise and erect the mind by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind." That... | |
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