 ... 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
 | Hans Thüme - 1927 - 120 lapas
...ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found in the natnre of things. Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisn'eth the mind of man, poesy feigueth acts and events greater and more heroical; because true... | |
 | Elmer Edgar Stoll - 1927 - 528 lapas
...have said so. 'Therefore,' he declares at the end of a great passage in the Advancement of Learning, 'because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the " See my Othello, pp. 31-44, especially p. 34. This is owing of course to their failure to make allowance... | |
 | Samuel Henry Butcher, Aristotle, John Gassner - 1951 - 516 lapas
...said, will be seen to approximate closely to one another. The wellknown words of Bacon run thus : — ' Therefore, because the acts or events of true history...man, Poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more herolcal ; . . . because true history representeth actions and events more ordinary and less interchanged,... | |
 | Alvin B. Kernan - 1989 - 384 lapas
...of poetry that largely held sway until the eighteenth century: The use of this feigned history [ie, poetry] hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction...man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroica!.... So as it appeareth that poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and to... | |
 | Mary Beth Rose - 1989 - 256 lapas
...written in prose or verse. He bases the defining content of poetry in the idealizing fantasies of desire: "because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfied! the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical; because true... | |
 | Ellen Dissanayake - 1990 - 276 lapas
...self-proclaimed variety. Art and the Experience of the Extraordinary . . . the world is inferior to the Soul. The acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfies the mind of man. Poesie endueth Action and Events with more rareness and more unexpected... | |
 | Arthur Davis - 1996 - 374 lapas
...but feigned history, which may be styled as well in prose as in verse. The use of the feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the...which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts greater and more heroical. Because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not... | |
 | Kenneth Muir - 2002 - 224 lapas
...proceeds in characteristic fashion to examine its utility, saying of it: The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the...events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfietl! the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical. Because true... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1844 - 586 lapas
...the soul ; by reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a mere exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than...history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the rnind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical : because true history propoundeth... | |
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