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
| Charlotte Carmichael Stopes - 1889 - 296 lapas
...present, whereas History represents them as past." "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 find in nature. . . . Dramatic poetry,... | |
| Philip Sidney - 1890 - 206 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...whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more»ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found in the... | |
| John Brown - 1890 - 356 lapas
...SOME SHADOW OF SATISFACTION TO TUB MIND OF MAS IN THESE POINTS WHEREIN THE NATURE OF THINGS DOTH DENT IT, the world being in proportion inferior to the...whereof, there is , agreeable to the spirit of man, A MORI AMPLE GREATNESS, A MORE EXACT GOODNESS, AND A MORE ABSOLUTE VARIETY, than can be found in the... | |
| Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1892 - 372 lapas
...Feigned History " (as he terms it), prose or verse, may be so classed, he says the use of it " hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind...those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it " ; and again, that it is thought to " have some participation of divineness because it doth raise... | |
| William Bruce Robertson - 1892 - 264 lapas
...history, and the use of this feigned history is to give the mind of man some shadow of satisfaction in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being inferior to the soul, and because there is agreeable to the mind a more and more ample greatness, a... | |
| William Angus Knight - 1893 - 304 lapas
...in his. He speaks of Poetry as " feigned history," and says " the use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man, in the points wherein the nature of things doth deny it." He finds that there is in " the spirit fckof... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1893 - 290 lapas
...same place Bacon tells us that the use of Poetry is "to give some satisfaction to the mind of man on those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world in proportion being inferior to the soul." And in many ages, from the time of Plato with his ideal... | |
| 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 - 284 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... | |
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