...may be styled as well in prose as irTverseT" 2. The use of this feigned history hath been to give I some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of .man in...ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute^arjetyj .than. can_be_fouridi.ja_the nature of ffimgs. TheiefQre,_because the acts or events...

...particularly applicable to these conceptions of an ideal world — says that " the use of feigned histories hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the...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...

...accounts for 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...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,...

...satisfaction to the mind of man in those ' points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the \vorld being in proportion inferior to the soul ; by reason...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...

...applicable to these conceptions of an ideal world — says that " the use of feigned histories bath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind...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...

...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...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 of...

...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...

...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...

...learning, and is nothing else but feigned history, which may be stiled as well in prose as in verse. 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...

...Bacon in bis " Advancement of LearnJ ing," " is nothing else but feigned history, the use of which hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the...variety, than can be found in the nature of things." In thus setting forth, by means of the imagination, actions more heroical, a retribution more just,...