 | Glyn Lloyd-Hughes - 2005 - 412 lapas
...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...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... | |
 | Bidyut Chakrabarty - 2004 - 192 lapas
...perpetual possession of being welldeceived' and Bacon's view that the use of poetry was 'to give some satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it'. Both Bacon and Swift seem as confident about 'the nature of things' as they are about the appetency... | |
 | Vereen M. Bell - 2006 - 214 lapas
...Jonathan; and for Will, Roy, Jim, Dan, Cliff, Gerald, and Bobbtj The use of [poesy] hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in...variety, than can be found in the nature of things. . . . And therefore [poesy] was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth... | |
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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... 
