...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...

...wrote: The use of this Feigned History hath heen to give sone shadow of satisfaction to the nind of nan in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it; the world heing in proportion inferior to the soul, hy reason whereof there is, agreeahle to the spirit of nan,...

...of (poetry) 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...

...explains, "by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind . . . [gives] some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein...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...

...Learning in which Bacon argues that poetry is "feigned history" that is used "to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...appreciation conveyed by Francis Bacon (1561-1626), who wrote that poetry exists to (316) "give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it"; that is, satisfaction to a mind that, on the one hand, cognitively sees things as they are but, on...

...Empirie freigesetzte Poesie nennt er „Feigned History". Ihr Zweck sei es, „to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it". Nur, und hier geht Bacon weit hinaus über die Ritter-Schule, befriedigt die Literatur nicht nur die...