 | Henry Rogers - 1838 - 150 lapas
...contained in his " Advancement of Learning," that it is a " feigned history, designed to give some satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it — to raise and erect the mind by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind." That... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 lapas
...340 NOTE IV.— Text 265. PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION. I. The mind aspires to perfection. Tins world is inferior to the soul, by reason whereof there is....variety than can be found in the nature of things. — BACON. The soul during her confinement within this prison of the body, is doomed by fate to undergo... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1839 - 374 lapas
...looks through to the cause of all things. NOTE IV.—Text 265. PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION. Tins world is inferior to the soul, by reason whereof there is,...absolute variety than can be found in the nature of things.—BACON. I. The mind aspires to perfection. The soul during her confinement within this prison... | |
 | 1841 - 832 lapas
...is nothing el«p but feigned history. The tur oft/iiifeignril hiilnry hath heen to give some shadows of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of thing» doth dray it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there... | |
 | 1849 - 608 lapas
...This is what we call the beau ideal, or xar' aj-oxiv the ideal — what Bacon so nobly describes as " a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and...variety than can be found in the nature of things, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul, and the exhibition of which doth raise and erect... | |
 | Samuel Tyler - 1844 - 214 lapas
...accuracy than Bacon himself. "The use of poesy (says he in the advancement of learning) hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature ot things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul; by reason whereof there... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 732 lapas
...which may he styled as well in prose as in verse. The use of this feigned history hath heen to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in...wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world heing in agreeahle to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more proportion inferior to the... | |
 | 1847 - 784 lapas
...soul of man than that in which he lives — giving to the mind of man " some shadow of satisfaction on those points wherein the nature of things doth deny...variety, than can be found in the nature of things." No great poem was produced in that period, when all the elements of poetry, except man's imagination,... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848 - 594 lapas
...which may be styled as well in prose as in verse. The use of this feigned history halh been to rive some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in...ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more aW solute variety, than can be found in the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts or events... | |
 | Anne Marsh-Caldwell - 1848 - 512 lapas
...oft-told tale has begun, while life is yet to the young clear eye that which poetry is or should be,—"A more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a...variety, than can be found in the nature of things." The teens! Oh, what a gush of promise is there in that first burst of fervent life into flower! But... | |
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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 being in proportion inferior to the soul... 
