 | Edmund Burke - 1877 - 660 lapas
...imagination can soar as well as sink, and that, in the words of Lord Bacon, the use of art "hath been and is to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of...points wherein the nature of things doth deny it." The number of pictorial works hung this year was 1,346. This is slightly below the average of five years.... | |
 | 1795 - 758 lapas
...this feigned hiftofy hath been td give fome fhadow of fatisfaflion to the mind of man in thofe point?, wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being, in proportion, inferior to the foul; by reafon whereof there is, agreeable to the fpiritof many a more ample greatnefs, a more exaft... | |
 | George Dyer - 1814 - 394 lapas
...learning, and is nothing less than that feigned history which may be styled as well in prose as poetry. " The use of this feigned History hath been to give...the nature of things doth deny it, the world being inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness,... | |
 | George Dyer - 1814 - 316 lapas
...learning, and is nothing less than that feigned history which may be styled as well in prose as poetry. " The use of this feigned History hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to tbe mind of man, in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being inferior... | |
 | George Dyer - 1814 - 320 lapas
...satisfaction to the mind of man, in those points wherein -the nature of things doth deny it, the world being inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1815 - 156 lapas
...knowledge apT pears to have been almost intuitive : " The use of this feigned history (Poetry) hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the...reason whereof there is agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1815 - 160 lapas
...: - ; " The use of this feigned history (Poetry) hath been to give some shadow of satisfac-< tion to the mind of man, in those points wherein the nature...reason whereof there is agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found... | |
 | 1865 - 804 lapas
...Academy we would, in the words of Lord Bacon, ask, Where are the works which, as feigned histories, " give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man...those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it " ? where are the pictures which testify that " the world is in proportion inferior to the soul, and... | |
 | 1865 - 790 lapas
...Academy we would, in the words of Lord Bacon, ask, Where are the works which, as feigned histories, " give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man...those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it " ? where are the pictures which testify that " the world is in proportion inferior to the soul, and... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 lapas
...learning, and is nothing else but feigned history, which may be stiled as well in prose as in verse. The use of this feigned history hath been to give...reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found... | |
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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... 
