 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...  The Monist - 606. lappuselaboja - 1921Pilnskats - Par šo grāmatu
 | Thomas Rain - 1904 - 246 lapas
..."poesy" as "nothing else \mkfeignedhistory" he continues : "The use of \h\sfeignedhistory hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of...those points wherein the nature of things doth deny 14 it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is, agreeable to... | |
 | 1880 - 1068 lapas
...Bacon finely observes about the function of poetry, to feed our aspirations after perfection, and ' to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of...points wherein the nature of things doth deny it.' If there is any truth in these suggestions, it is allowable to look at modern art, not of course exclusively,... | |
 | Northrop Frye - 1982 - 220 lapas
...science is expressed by Francis Bacon in The Advancement of Learning: The use of (poetry) hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of Man in those points where the Nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul . . . And... | |
 | Kent T. Van den Berg - 1985 - 204 lapas
...explicit. Poetry, he explains, "by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind . . . [gives] some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in...points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul." 26 Shakespeare's stage objectifies this new sense... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1994 - 518 lapas
...from The Advancement of Learning in which Bacon argues that poetry is "feigned history" that is used "to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of...points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul" (The Works of Francis Bacon, . . ., I, 90). The... | |
 | Alvin B. Kernan - 1989 - 384 lapas
...largely held sway until the eighteenth century: The use of this feigned history [ie, poetry] hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of...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 spirit... | |
 | Charles Wegener - 1992 - 244 lapas
...the same passage from which we quoted earlier. The use of this feigned history [ie, poetry] hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of...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 spirit... | |
 | Arthur Davis - 1996 - 374 lapas
...history, which may be styled as well in prose as in verse. The use of the feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of...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 spirit... | |
 | William Gerber - 1997 - 252 lapas
...aesthetic appreciation conveyed by Francis Bacon (1561-1626), who wrote that poetry exists to (316) "give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man...points wherein the nature of things doth deny it"; that is, satisfaction to a mind that, on the one hand, cognitively sees things as they are but, on... | |
 | Philipp Wolf - 1998 - 364 lapas
...geistigen Vermögen, von der Empirie freigesetzte Poesie nennt er „Feigned History". Ihr Zweck sei es, „to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind...points wherein the nature of things doth deny it". Nur, und hier geht Bacon weit hinaus über die Ritter-Schule, befriedigt die Literatur nicht nur die... | |
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