 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
 | Deeps - 1875 - 358 lapas
...Bacon's estimate of poetry or fiction as " feigned history " — " The use of this feigned history has been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the...the world being in proportion inferior to the soul . . . Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth... | |
 | Thomas Griffith - 1875 - 478 lapas
...grand office of the messengers of God. Their object is like that which Bacon assigns to Poetry — "to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of...the nature of things doth deny it, the world being so inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample... | |
 | London city of Lond. sch - 1877 - 340 lapas
...poetry in supplying blind hopes and impossible ideals. "The use," he says, "of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind...reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of m^n, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1877 - 690 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.... | |
 | James Melville M'Culloch - 1882 - 442 lapas
...SIR WALTER RALEIGH. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. SHAKSPEARE. The use of poesy is to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of...points wherein the nature of things doth deny it. Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the... | |
 | John Brown - 1882 - 474 lapas
...NOTES ON ART. u The uiepfthu feigned history " (the Ideal Arts of Poea,, Paintiny, Aft/sic, <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, the woM being in projm-tum inferior to the... | |
 | John Brown - 1882 - 506 lapas
...NOTES ON ART. ' The me of this feigned history ' (the Ideal Arts of 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, the world being in proportion inferior to the... | |
 | John Brown - 1861 - 482 lapas
...NOTES ON ART. " The tut of Ait feigned history " (the Ideal Arts of Poet*. Pamtmy, Italic, fc.) "hath been to give SOME SHADOW OF SATISFACTION TO THE MIND OF MAN IN THESE POINTS WHEREIN THE NATURE O» THINGS DOTH DENY IT, the world being in proportion inferior to... | |
 | Charles William Bardeen - 1884 - 828 lapas
...Bacon gave to the world, ten years later, an amplification of Sidney's idea in the words following: " There is agreeable to the spirit of man a more ample greatness, a move exact goodness, and a more absolute variety than can be found in the nature of things. Therefore,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1887 - 882 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...of man in those points wherein the nature of things dotli deny it ; the world being in proportion inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is agreeable... | |
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