...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...variety, than can be found in the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts and events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the...

...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 the nature of things." Hence it is that the interest of a picture depends mainly upon the human element interfused in it,...

...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...

...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,...variety, than can be found in the nature of things." — Bacon. OUB position with reference to this question is not so much that of a rjropounder and advocate...

...ideam. This is what we call the beau-ideal, or KO.T e^o-^v the ideal — what Bacon describes as " a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and...variety than can be found in the nature of things, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul, and the exhibition of which doth raise and erect...

...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...

...the world being in proportion inferior to the tout; by reason whereof, there is, agreeable to tlie spirit of man, A MORE AMPLE GREATNESS, A MORE EXACT GOODNESS AND A MOBS ABSOLUTE VARIETY, than can be found in the nature of things. So it appeareth that Poesy " ( and...

..."hath been to give SOME SHADOW OF SATISFACTION TO THE MIND OF MAN IN THESE POINTS WHEREIN THE NATUKE OF THINGS DOTH DENY IT, the world being in proportion...VARIETY, than can be found in the nature of things. So it appeareth that Poesy" (and the others) " serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and to delectation....

..."hath been to give SOME SHADOW OF SATISFACTION TO THE MIND OF MAN IN THESE POINTS WHEREIN THE NATURE OF THINGS DOTH DENY IT, the world being in proportion...reason whereof, there is, agreeable to the spirit uf man, A MORE AMPLE GREATNESS, A MORE EXACT GOODNESS AND A MORE ABSOLUTE VARIETY, than can be found...

...SOME SHADOW OF SATISFACTION TO THB HIND OF MAN IN THESE POINTS WHEREIN THE NATURE OF THINGS DOTH DEMY IT, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul; by reason whereoft there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, A MORB AMPLE GREATNESS, A If ORB KXACT GOODNESS,...