 In the later it is, as hath been said, one of the principal portions of learning, and is nothing else but 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...  The Dream of Pythagoras: And Other Poems - 42. lappuseautors: Emma Tatham - 1872 - 331 lapasPilnskats - Par šo grāmatu
 | John Brown - 1861 - 516 lapas
...ON ART. " The use of this feigned history " (the Ideal Arts of Poesy, Painting, Music, &c.) " 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... | |
 | John Brown - 1861 - 470 lapas
...ON ART. « The utt of this feigned history " (the Ideal Arts of J'oe^, Patntins, ifutic, $c.) "hath been to give SOME SHADOW OF SATISFACTION TO THE MIND OF MAN IN THESE POINTS WHEREIN THE NATURE OF THINGS DOTH DENT IT, the world being in proportion inferior to the... | |
 | John Brown - 1862 - 488 lapas
...Poesy, Painting, Music, <fc.) "hath been to give SOME SHADOW OF SATISFACTION TO THE MIND OF MAN IN THESE POINTS WHEREIN THE NATURE OF THINGS DOTH DENY IT,...reason whereof, there is, agreeable to the spirit uf man, A MORE AMPLE GREATNESS, A MORE EXACT GOODNESS AND A MORE ABSOLUTE VARIETY, than can be found... | |
 | John Brown - 1862 - 360 lapas
...SOME SHADOW OF SATISFACTION TO THB HIND OF MAN IN THESE POINTS WHEREIN THE NATURE OF THINGS DOTH DEMY IT, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul; by reason whereoft there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, A MORB AMPLE GREATNESS, A If ORB KXACT GOODNESS,... | |
 | John Parry - 1863 - 780 lapas
...The use of this feigned history hath been to gire some shadow of satisfaction to the mint! of man on those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior tu the soul ; by reason whereof there is agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, ж... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1864 - 528 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... | |
 | Joseph Napier - 1864 - 350 lapas
...he) 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."... | |
 | 1865 - 538 lapas
...those many voices through which she speaks to man. For " the use of art," as Bacon tells us, " hath been to give some shadow of " satisfaction to the...points wherein the nature of " things doth deny it : — a more ample "greatness, a more exact goodness, a " more absolute variety, than can be " found... | |
 | 1865 - 794 lapas
...where are the pictures which testify that " the world is in proportion inferior to the soul, and that there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, aud a more absolute variety, than can be found in the nature of things " ? Where, in fine, is the art... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1866 - 514 lapas
...history, which may be styled [written] as well in prose as in verse. The use of thi* feigned history hath been, to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind...proportion inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof, there ii agreeable to the spirit of man a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute... | |
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