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
| Michael Werth Gelber - 2002 - 358 lapas
...Royal Society, of whom Thomas Sprat was perhaps the most outspoken. According to Bacon, poetry may 'give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man...points wherein the nature of things doth deny it'; but at its best it is only 'feigned history' and is therefore never to be accepted as truth. 17 According... | |
| Evelyn Eckstein - 2001 - 272 lapas
...7. Jahrhunderts diese Funktion der Dichtung benannt hat: "The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of...points wherein the nature of things doth deny it." Francis Bacon: The Advancement of Learning H, iv, 2, S. 80, in: The Advancement of Learning and New... | |
| Stephen Gaukroger - 2001 - 270 lapas
...eloquent account of the claims of poesy, of the kind that Sidney offered, in the Advancement of Learning: 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... | |
| Michael Witmore - 2002 - 252 lapas
...divine retribution than is apparent in experience. The use of Feigned History, he writes: hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of...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... | |
| Kenneth Muir - 2002 - 224 lapas
...characteristic fashion to examine its utility, saying of it: The use of this 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... | |
| Bronwen Price - 2002 - 226 lapas
...poets are free from the constraints of realism and fact: The use of this Feigned History hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of...those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it ... Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth... | |
| Francis Bacon - 2002 - 868 lapas
...History, which may be styled0 as well in prose as in verse.0 The use of this 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 proportion0 inferior to the soul; by reason whereof there is agreeable to the spirit... | |
| Philip Sidney - 2002 - 286 lapas
...Learning. Poesy 'is nothing else but feigned history ... as well in prose as in verse', which gives 'some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in...those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it ... Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth... | |
| Jonathan Dollimore - 2004 - 420 lapas
...between poesy, poetic justice and providence: 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... | |
| Glyn Lloyd-Hughes - 2005 - 412 lapas
...history, 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...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... | |
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