 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
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1994 - 518 lapas
...from The Advancement of Learning in which Bacon argues that poetry is "feigned history" that is used "to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of...the world being in proportion inferior to the soul" (The Works of Francis Bacon, . . ., I, 90). The Zoroastrian definition of poetry is a paraphrase of... | |
 | B. H. G. Wormald - 1993 - 436 lapas
...those things which history denies to it;... 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... | |
 | Heinrich F. Plett - 1994 - 460 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... | |
 | William Gerber - 1997 - 252 lapas
...aesthetic appreciation conveyed by Francis Bacon (1561-1626), who wrote that poetry exists to (316) "give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man...points wherein the nature of things doth deny it"; that is, satisfaction to a mind that, on the one hand, cognitively sees things as they are but, on... | |
 | Philipp Wolf - 1998 - 364 lapas
...geistigen Vermögen, von der Empirie freigesetzte Poesie nennt er „Feigned History". Ihr Zweck sei es, „to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind...points wherein the nature of things doth deny it". Nur, und hier geht Bacon weit hinaus über die Ritter-Schule, befriedigt die Literatur nicht nur die... | |
 | Michael Werth Gelber - 2002 - 358 lapas
...Royal Society, of whom Thomas Sprat was perhaps the most outspoken. According to Bacon, poetry may 'give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man...points wherein the nature of things doth deny it'; but at its best it is only 'feigned history' and is therefore never to be accepted as truth. 17 According... | |
 | Michael Witmore - 2002 - 252 lapas
...and divine retribution than is apparent in experience. The use of Feigned History, he writes: hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind...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... | |
 | Evelyn Eckstein - 2001 - 272 lapas
...des 1 7. Jahrhunderts diese Funktion der Dichtung benannt hat: "The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind...points wherein the nature of things doth deny it." Francis Bacon: The Advancement of Learning H, iv, 2, S. 80, in: The Advancement of Learning and New... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 2002 - 868 lapas
...Feigned History, which may be styled0 as well in prose as in verse.0 The use of this Feigned History hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind...nature of things doth deny it; the world being in proportion0 inferior to the soul; by reason whereof there is agreeable to the spirit of man a more... | |
 | Bronwen Price - 2002 - 226 lapas
...because poets are free from the constraints of realism and fact: 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 ... Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth... | |
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