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... Spare hours v. 1, 1861 - Página 439por John Brown - 1861Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Charles Wegener - 1992 - 244 páginas
...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...variety, than can be found in the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts and events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfteth the... | |
| B. H. G. Wormald - 1993 - 436 páginas
...those things which history denies to it;... 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... | |
| William A. Covino - 1994 - 208 páginas
...lawlessness is a necessary (but not—for Bacon or Masson—fully approved) expression of the human spirit, "the world being in proportion inferior to the soul;...variety, than can be found in the nature of things" (Advancement 2.4.2; 82). 17. For a full discussion of De Quincey's rhetorical theory, see Covino, "Thomas... | |
| Heinrich F. Plett - 1994 - 460 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... | |
| Arthur Davis - 1996 - 374 páginas
...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...variety than can be found in the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the... | |
| Richard Marback - 1999 - 184 páginas
...where history lacks "that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man," poesy feigns for the imagination "a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety," thereby moving the mind to act on learning by imbuing knowledge with "magnanimity," "morality," and... | |
| Kenneth Muir - 2002 - 224 páginas
...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...variety, than can be found in the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfietl! the... | |
| Francis Bacon - 2002 - 868 páginas
...mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it; the world being in proportion0 inferior to the soul; by reason whereof there is agreeable...variety, than can be found in the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts or events of true history0 have not that magnitude which satisfieth the... | |
| Simon Brittan - 2003 - 242 páginas
...points wherein the Nature of things doth denie it, the world being in proportion inferiour to the soule; by reason whereof there is agreeable to the spirit of Man a more ample Greatnesse, a more exact Goodnesse, and a more absolute varietie then can bee found in the Nature of... | |
| Jonathan Dollimore - 2004 - 420 páginas
...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...man a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness . . . than can be found in the nature of things . . . because true history propoundeth the successes... | |
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