| William Basil Worsfold - 1897 - 310 lapas
...essentially the modern conception of poetry. The use of Feigned History, or Poetry, Bacon says, is ' to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of...points wherein the nature of things doth deny it.' I now add the concluding sentences :2 ' Because true history representeth actions and events more ordinary... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1902 - 292 lapas
...history. Bacon calls poetry feigned history, and well remarks that " the use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in these points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the... | |
| 1903 - 512 lapas
...fall by the noblest hypothesis. The world being in proportion inferior to the soul, as Bacon says, there is agreeable to the spirit of man a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, than can be found in things, and the imagination is often a safer guide to reality than the fact. It... | |
| 1903 - 578 lapas
...noblest hypothesis. The world being in proportion inferior to the soul, as Bacon says, there is agreenble to the spirit of man a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, than can be found in things, and the imagin ition is often a safer guide to reality than the fact.... | |
| John Churton Collins - 1905 - 328 lapas
...and sever that which Nature hath joined. It is feigned history, and the use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the...man a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness than can be found in the nature of things. . . . And therefore poetrywas thought to have some participation... | |
| 1905 - 958 lapas
...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... | |
| John Brown - 1910 - 506 lapas
...Painting, Music, &c ) 'hath been to give SOME SHADOW OP SATISFACTION TO THE MIND OF MAN IN THF.SF. POINTS WHEREIN THE NATURE OF THINGS DOTH DENY IT, the World being in profiortion inferior to the soul ; ly reason whereof, there is, agreeable to the Spirit of man, A MORE... | |
| John Churton Collins - 1912 - 310 lapas
...permission of Messrs. Macmillan and Co. else but Feigned History. . . . The use of this Feigned History hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the...man a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness . . . than can be found in the nature of things. ... It doth raise and erect the mind by submitting... | |
| Stephen Phillips, Galloway Kyle - 1914 - 404 lapas
...of poetry is justified in the delicately modulated sonnets, for they are poems which are calculated to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in the points wherein the nature of things doth deny it. This gracious shadow of the ideal deepens the... | |
| William Henry Hudson - 1913 - 484 lapas
...of poetry ; and hence Bacon's conception of poetry as the idealistic handling of life which lends " some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in...points wherein the nature of things doth deny it." i The full significance of poetry as an interpretation of life through imagination and feeling will... | |
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