 ... 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 to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world...  The Descent of Liberty: A Mask - xvii. lappuseautors: Leigh Hunt - 1815 - 82 lapasPilnskats - Par šo grāmatu
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 514 lapas
...history, which may he styled [written] as well in prose as in verse. The use of this feigned history hath been, to give some shadow of satisfaction to...magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy fcigneth acts and events greater and more heroical : because true history propoundeth the successes... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1855 - 530 lapas
...shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, tho world being in proportion inferior to the soul; by...events of true history have not that magnitude which satisficth the mind of man, poesy feigncth acts and events greater and more heroical: because true... | |
 | David Masson - 1856 - 528 lapas
...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 —...events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfleth the mind of man, Poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical ; because true... | |
 | David Masson - 1856 - 494 lapas
...as their virtues ; in other words, to imitate real life. Here again comes in the Baconian thunder. " Because the acts or events of true history have not...magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy (and Bacon's definition of poesy includes the proses-fiction) feigneth acts and events greater and... | |
 | William Henry Smith - 1857 - 190 lapas
...Poetry is peculiarly applicable to the life of Shakespeare — " because the acts and events of (his) true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man," Imagination " feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical." Fuller knew so little of, and inquired... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1859 - 508 lapas
...history, which may be styled [written] as well in prose as in verse. The use of this feigned history hath been, to give some shadow of satisfaction to...man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more hcroical : because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1908 - 898 lapas
...a more absolute variety, than can be found in the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts and events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of men, poesy f eigneth acts and events greater and more heroical. Because history propoundeth the successes... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1862 - 728 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...man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more beroical : because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to... | |
 | Nathaniel Holmes - 1867 - 636 lapas
...of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion 1 AIlI-. of Learn., Book II. 3 Lib. II. c. 13. inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is,...events of true history have not that magnitude which satisficth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical : because true... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1869 - 446 lapas
...goodness, and a more absolute^arjetyj .than. can_be_fouridi.ja_the nature of ffimgs. TheiefQre,_because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfleth the mind oOnajS7P.9. e .sy,f e '{j ne rt 1 acts and events greater and more heroical. Because... | |
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