 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
 | Iowa. General Assembly - 1872 - 964 lapas
...has given this thought a most félicitions expression : " 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... | |
 | Emma Tatham - 1872 - 350 lapas
...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 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... | |
 | Henry Rogers - 1874 - 496 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...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... | |
 | Thomas Griffith - 1875 - 478 lapas
...grand office of the messengers of God. Their object is like that which Bacon assigns to Poetry — "to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of...points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being so inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man,... | |
 | Deeps - 1875 - 358 lapas
...estimate 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...points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul . . . Therefore, because the acts or events of true... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1876 - 504 lapas
...history, which 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...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... | |
 | sir John Bowring - 1877 - 594 lapas
...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 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 lapas
...history, which may be stiled 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, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1877 - 690 lapas
...imagination can soar as well as sink, and that, in the words of Lord Bacon, the use of art "hath been and is to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of...points wherein the nature of things doth deny it." The number of pictorial works hung this year was 1,346. This is slightly below the average of five... | |
 | Paul Stapfer - 1880 - 428 lapas
...(The Second Book, iv. § 2) : " The use of this feigned history (as he calls poetry) hath been togive 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 ; by reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit... | |
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