...Poesy, Painting, Music, &<:.) 'hath been to give SOME SHADOW OF SATISFACTION TO THE MIND OF MAN IN THESE POINTS WHEREIN THE NATURE OF THINGS DOTH DENY IT,...VARIETY, than can be found in the nature of things. So it appeareth that Poesy'1 (and the others) ' serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and...

...forth in Bacon's beautiful sentence in On the Advancement of Learning (Bk. ii.) — " The world being inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof, there is...variety than can be found in the nature of things." For the animating spirit is nature as much j1s the permeated matter. Having thus so far examined the...

...ideam. This is what we call the beau-ideal, or KO.T tfoxyv, 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...

...ideam This is what we call the beau ideal, or KO.T e^o^iji' 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...

...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...

...that largely held sway until the eighteenth century: The use of this feigned history [ie, poetry] 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...

...in the same passage from which we quoted earlier. The use of this feigned history [ie, poetry] 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 and events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfteth the...

...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...

...feigned history, which may be styled as well in prose as in verse. The use of the 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...

...where history lacks "that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man," poesy feigns for the imagination "a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety," thereby moving the mind to act on learning by imbuing knowledge with "magnanimity," "morality," and...