...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. . . . Therefore because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth...

...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. . . . Therefore because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth...

...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 trae history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the...

...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."* This effort, "to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind," which proves the necessity of poetry,...

...who extols poetry as "submitting the shews of things to the desires of the mind," to the desires for "a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, 10 than can be found in the nature of things." No man. however, can fully draw out the reasons why...

...more advanced age of the world, and stored and stocked with infinite experiments and observations." 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 Whence...

...hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of Man in those points where the Nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul . . . And therefore (poetry) was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it...

.... . . [gives] 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." 26 Shakespeare's stage objectifies this new sense of reality by offering a split image of the play's...

...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...

...used "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 Works of Francis Bacon, . . ., I, 90). The Zoroastrian definition of poetry is a paraphrase of...