 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 ; by reason whereof there is, agreeable to the...  The Dream of Pythagoras: And Other Poems - 42. lappuseautors: Emma Tatham - 1872 - 331 lapasPilnskats - Par šo grāmatu
 | Dugald Stewart - 1866 - 514 lapas
...things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof, there ii agreeable to the spirit of man a more ample greatness,...variety, than can be found in the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not thai magni aide which satisfieth the... | |
 | John Brown - 1866 - 468 lapas
...the soul; by reason whereof, there is, agreeable to the spirit ufman, A MORE AMPLE GREATNESS, A MOKE EXACT GOODNESS AND A MORE ABSOLUTE VARIETY, than can be found in the nature of things. So it appeareth that Poesy" (and the others) " serveth and cimferreth to magnanimity, morality, and... | |
 | Nathaniel Holmes - 1867 - 670 lapas
...nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion l Adv. of Learn., Book II. t Lib. nc 13. inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is,...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... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 lapas
...inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is (ie in poetry), agreeable to (in order to satisfy) the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more...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... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1859 - 740 lapas
...Tennyson has given us the highest proof of his genius and culture in these ' feigned ' histories of a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and...variety, than can be found in the nature of * things' — tricked with few ornaments of style to disturb our vision of ' the shows wherewith he doth raise... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1857 - 598 lapas
...world being inferior to the ' soul ; by reason whereof there is agreeable to the spirit of man a mere ' ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more...variety ' than can be found in the nature of things.' Such is the ground occupied alike by the lovers of Plato and the lovers of Bacon ; in fact, by every... | |
 | English authors - 1869 - 458 lapas
...feigned history, which may be styled as well in prose as in verse . The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind...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... | |
 | Edmund Ollier - 1871 - 648 lapas
...applicable to these conceptions of an ideal world — says that " the use of feigned histories hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind...variety, than can be found in the nature of things. And therefore poetry was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise... | |
 | Iowa. General Assembly - 1872 - 964 lapas
...scientists, has given this thought a most félicitions expression : " The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1873 - 438 lapas
...satisfaction to the mind of man in those ' points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the \vorld being in proportion inferior to the soul ; by reason...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... | |
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