 | Edmund Ollier - 1871 - 648 lapas
...these conceptions of an ideal world — says that " the use of feigned histories 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 poetry was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise... | |
 | Noah Porter - 1871 - 404 lapas
...computed. Of its products in literature Lord Bacon says: "The use of this feigned history has been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in...the world being in proportion inferior to the soul. . . . Therefore because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth... | |
 | Noah Porter - 1871 - 406 lapas
...computed. Of its products in literature Lord Bacon says: "The use of this feigned history has been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in...the world being in proportion inferior to the soul. . . . Therefore because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth... | |
 | Noah Porter - 1871 - 392 lapas
...computed. Of its products in literature Lord Bacon says : "The use of this feigned history has been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in...the world being in proportion inferior to the soul. . . . Therefore because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth... | |
 | Emma Tatham - 1872 - 350 lapas
...the existence of poetry, and pleads for its utility thus : — " The use of poetry has been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man, in...variety, than can be found in the nature of things."* This effort, "to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind," which proves the necessity of poetry,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1873 - 438 lapas
...may be styled as well in prose as ^ in verse. 2. 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, the \vorld being in proportion inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit... | |
 | Henry Rogers - 1874 - 492 lapas
...symmetry, an etherial grace, which Nature never has. It is the province of poetry, as Bacon says, " to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in...absolute variety than can be found in the nature of things."1 Poetry, therefore, in consistency with this partial design of art, eliminates from its pictures... | |
 | Henry Rogers - 1874 - 490 lapas
...symmetry, an etherial grace, which Nature never has. It is the province of poetry, as Bacon says, " 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; by reason whereof there is, agreeable to the... | |
 | David Masson - 1874 - 338 lapas
...of things " " The .use of feigned history is to give to the mind of man some shadow of satisfaction in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it." The battle, we say, must be fought with these phrases. Nor is the battle confined to the art of painting.... | |
 | Deeps - 1875 - 358 lapas
...of poetry or fiction as " feigned history " — " The use of this feigned history has been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in...the world being in proportion inferior to the soul . . . Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth... | |
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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... 
