 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
 | 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
...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 mind...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 mind...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... | |
 | Guy Andrew Thompson - 1914 - 238 lapas
...should not be. "24 a Ib., 155. 2 1 Ib., 168. The use of poetry, or "feigned history", says Bacon, "hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind...the world being in proportion inferior to the soul" (Adv. Learning, Bk. II, iv, 1). The Poet in Timon of Athens (I, i, 37) says of the Painter's work:... | |
 | Guy Andrew Thompson - 1914 - 230 lapas
...31 Ib., 168. The use of poetry, or "feigned history", says Bacon, "hath been to give some shadow ol satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein...the world being in proportion inferior to the soul" (Adv. Learning, Bk. II, iv, 1). The Poet in Timon of Athens (I, i, 37) says of the Painter's work :... | |
 | Frank Herbert Hayward - 1915 - 272 lapas
...art is man added to nature" (ars esthomo additus natures), and that the function of poetry is to lend "some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in...points wherein the nature of things doth deny it." (88) Is it possible to enjoy the rhythm of a language which we do not understand ? (89) "The vague... | |
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