 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
 | 1916 - 402 lapas
...classic scene in Boswell's biography I The use of this feigned history (Poesy, Painting, Music) hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man on these points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to... | |
 | 1919 - 396 lapas
...general. " Its use hath been," he writes, " to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man io- those points wherein the nature of things doth deny...the world being in proportion inferior to the soul . . . and therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness because it doth raise... | |
 | Mark Van Doren - 1920 - 386 lapas
...that poets are divine, or mad; but he had assigned to them a function more or less creative, which was "to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of...the world being in proportion inferior to the soul." Now Hobbes ignored the transforming power in favor of the recording power. "For Memory is the World... | |
 | 1920 - 838 lapas
...by which man aspires to a superior life". And the value of such poetryi in the words of Bacon, "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... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1921 - 458 lapas
...ii.) Compare the similar passage in The Advancement of Learning: "The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind...those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it—the world being in proportion inferior to the soul." (Book ii.) 1 See note fi on p. 13 und note... | |
 | 1880 - 1068 lapas
...Bacon finely observes about the function of poetry, to feed our aspirations after perfection, and ' to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of...points wherein the nature of things doth deny it.' If there is any truth in these suggestions, it is allowable to look at modern art, not of course exclusively,... | |
 | George Huntston Williams, Frank Forrester Church, Timothy Francis George - 1979 - 458 lapas
...more advanced age of the world, and stored and stocked with infinite experiments and observations." 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 Whence... | |
 | Ahmad Hasan Qureshi - 1978 - 78 lapas
...wrote: The use of this Feigned History hath heen to give sone shadow of satisfaction to the nind of nan in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it; the world heing in proportion inferior to the soul, hy reason whereof there is, agreeahle to the spirit of nan,... | |
 | Northrop Frye - 1982 - 220 lapas
...and science is expressed by Francis Bacon in The Advancement of Learning: The use of (poetry) hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of Man in those points where the Nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul . . . And... | |
 | Kent T. Van den Berg - 1985 - 204 lapas
...explicit. Poetry, he explains, "by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind . . . [gives] some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in...the world being in proportion inferior to the soul." 26 Shakespeare's stage objectifies this new sense of reality by offering a split image of the play's... | |
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