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 ; by reason whereof there is agreeable to the... Legislative Documents - 102. lappuseautors: Iowa. General Assembly - 1872Pilnskats - Par šo grāmatu
| 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... | |
| John Harris - 1849 - 526 lapas
...finely said of poetry* as a daughter of imagination, may be justly affirmed of the imagination itself. " There is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample...of things. Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, Poesy feigneth acts and events... | |
| Henry Wright Phillott - 1849 - 224 lapas
...nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul ; by reason thereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample...of things. Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events,... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1849 - 608 lapas
...what we call the beau ideal, or хат' £J;oX'lv the ideal — what Bacon so nobly describes as " on to say — "A waiting woman the world being in proportion inferior to the soul, and the exhibition of which doth raise and erect... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 lapas
...those points wherein the nature of things ' doth deny it, the world being in proportion infe- -1 rior y of entry, ol true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events... | |
| Maria Georgina Shirreff Grey, Emily Anne Eliza Shirreff - 1851 - 496 lapas
...as Lord Bacon beautifully expresses it, " to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of men on those points wherein the nature of things doth deny...of things. Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1852 - 238 lapas
...learning, and is nothing else but feigned history, which may be styled as well in prose as in verse. 2. The use of this feigned history^ hath been to give...of things. Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 lapas
...[earning, and is 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...nature of things. Therefore, because the acts or events ol true history have not that magnitude which satisfied the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events... | |
| 1853 - 604 lapas
...one dares to call trash, and whose very definition of art was couched in expressions like these:—" There is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample...variety than can be found in the nature of things ;" " the use of feigned history is to give to the mind of man some shadow of satisfaction in those... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1877 - 394 lapas
...shows], now bright with gold, Then dusk with horrid shades. — Virgil (Kennedy). P. 65, n. 1, 1. 1. — The use of this feigned history hath been to give...of things. Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events... | |
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