 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 North British Review - Strona 4171847Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | John Brown - 1890 - Liczba stron: 356
...SOME SHADOW OF SATISFACTION TO TUB MIND OF MAS IN THESE POINTS WHEREIN THE NATURE OF THINGS DOTH DENT IT, the world being in proportion inferior to the...whereof, there is , agreeable to the spirit of man, A MORI AMPLE GREATNESS, A MORE EXACT GOODNESS, AND A MORE ABSOLUTE VARIETY, than can be found in the... | |
 | John Henry Newman - 1891 - Liczba stron: 56
...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...variety, than can be found in the nature of things." 11 10. Figure is its necessary medium of communication. Cf. Shelley, Defense 4 27 ff. 11 15. A metrical... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1891 - Liczba stron: 304
...more accurate than nature." Bacon also, in The Advancement of Learning, speaks of " the world being inferior to the soul, by reason whereof there is agreeable...variety than can be found in the nature of things." The poets tell us that, Prometheus having made a beautiful statue of Minerva, the goddess was so delighted... | |
 | William Bruce Robertson - 1892 - Liczba stron: 266
...history, and the use of this feigned history is to give the mind of man some shadow of satisfaction in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being inferior to the soul, and because there is agreeable to the mind a more and more ample greatness, a... | |
 | James Orr - 1893 - Liczba stron: 586
...attaches to imagination. " The use of this feigned history," says Lord Bacon, speaking of poetry, "is to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of...goodness, and a more absolute variety than can be found See in the nature of things."1 Finally, there is desire. Give a man all of the world he asks for, and... | |
 | William Angus Knight - 1893 - Liczba stron: 304
...the points wherein the nature of things doth deny it." He finds that there is in " the spirit fckof man a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness,...variety, than can be found in the nature of things." It is "because the events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man,... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1894 - Liczba stron: 358
...more accurate than nature." Bacon also, in The Advancement of Learning, speaks of " the world being inferior to the soul, by reason whereof there is agreeable...variety than can be found in the nature of things." The poets tell us that Prometheus, having made a beautiful statue of Minerva, the goddess was so delighted... | |
 | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - 1895 - Liczba stron: 436
...Advancement of Learning, where Bacon extols in a similar strain the uses and worth of fiction, in which "there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more...variety, than can be found in the nature of things " (bk. ii. ch. iv.). CHAPTER XLVIII Wherein the Canon pursues the subject of the Books of Chivalries,... | |
 | 1899 - Liczba stron: 408
...to the melodious rhythm of poetry, and it is by reading poetry, wherein, Bacon tells us, "there is a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and...variety than can be found in the nature of things," that the writer of prose is moved to sympathy by the sadness which the creative mind of the poet depicts,... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1973 - Liczba stron: 508
...who extols poetry as "submitting the shews of things to the desires of the mind," to the desires for "a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, 10 than can be found in the nature of things." No man. however, can fully draw out the reasons why... | |
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