 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...  Studies in Poetry and Criticism - Página 271por John Churton Collins - 1905 - 309 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Benjamin Gregory - 1859 - 210 páginas
...accounts for the existence of poetry, and pleads for its utility thus : — " The use of poetry has been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind...man, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found in the nature of things."* This effort, " to give some... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1859 - 616 páginas
...which may be styled as well in prose as in verse. The use of this feigned history hath been to jive some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in...there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample jreatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found in the nature of things.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 516 páginas
...For if the matter be attentively considered, a sound argument may be drawn from Poesy, to show that there is agreeable to the spirit of man a more ample greatness, a more perfect order, and a more beautiful variety than it can anywhere (since the Fall) find in nature. And... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1860 - 390 páginas
...shows], now bright with gold, Then dusk with horrid shades. — Virgil (Kennedy). P. 65, n. 1, 1. 1. — The use of this feigned history hath been to give...man, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found in the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1908 - 898 páginas
...The use of this feigned History hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man on those points wherein the nature of things doth deny...man, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found in the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts... | |
 | 1865 - 810 páginas
...signification of those many voices through which she speaks to man. For " the use of art," as Bacon tells us, " hath been to give some shadow of ' satisfaction to...points wherein the nature of ' things doth deny it : — a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, a ' more absolute variety, than can be found in... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1903 - 872 páginas
...to which Bacon assigns the merit of poetry. Poetry .... is nothing else than Feigned History. . . . The use of this feigned History hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man on those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it ; the world being in proportion inferior... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1861 - 862 páginas
...learning, and is nothing else but Feigned History, which may be styled as well in prose as in verse. The use of this Feigned History hath been to give...man a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found in the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts... | |
 | 1861 - 876 páginas
...COEBECTP NEGATIVE ABTICLE. — I. " The world being inferior to the soul : by reason и hereof there ¡a, agreeable to the spirit, of man, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found in the nature of things." — Bacon. OUB position with... | |
 | John Brown - 1861 - 470 páginas
...NOTES ON ART. « The utt of this feigned history " (the Ideal Arts of J'oe^, Patntins, ifutic, $c.) "hath been to give SOME SHADOW OF SATISFACTION TO THE MIND OF MAN IN THESE POINTS WHEREIN THE NATURE OF THINGS DOTH DENT IT, the world being in proportion inferior to the... | |
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