 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
 | George Huntston Williams, Frank Forrester Church, Timothy Francis George - 1979 - Liczba stron: 458
...more advanced age of the world, and stored and stocked with infinite experiments and observations." there is agreeable to the spirit of man a more ample greatness, a more perfect order, and a more beautiful variety than it can anywhere (since the Fall) find in nature Whence... | |
 | Ahmad Hasan Qureshi - 1978 - Liczba stron: 78
...The use of this Feigned History hath heen to give sone shadow of satisfaction to the nind of nan in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it; the world heing in proportion inferior to the soul, hy reason whereof there is, agreeahle to the spirit of nan,... | |
 | Northrop Frye - 1982 - Liczba stron: 220
...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 therefore (poetry) was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it... | |
 | Kent T. Van den Berg - 1985 - Liczba stron: 204
...of things to the desires of the mind . . . [gives] some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny...the world being in proportion inferior to the soul." 26 Shakespeare's stage objectifies this new sense of reality by offering a split image of the play's... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1994 - Liczba stron: 518
...poetry is "feigned history" that is used "to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny...the world being in proportion inferior to the soul" (The Works of Francis Bacon, . . ., I, 90). The Zoroastrian definition of poetry is a paraphrase of... | |
 | B. H. G. Wormald - 1993 - Liczba stron: 436
...those things which history denies to it;... a sound argument may be drawn from Poesy, to show that there is agreeable to the spirit of man a more ample greatness, a more perfect order, and a more beautiful variety than it can anywhere (since the Fall) find in nature. And... | |
 | William A. Covino - 1994 - Liczba stron: 208
...lawlessness is a necessary (but not—for Bacon or Masson—fully approved) expression of the human spirit, "the world being in proportion inferior to the soul;...variety, than can be found in the nature of things" (Advancement 2.4.2; 82). 17. For a full discussion of De Quincey's rhetorical theory, see Covino, "Thomas... | |
 | Heinrich F. Plett - 1994 - Liczba stron: 460
...For if the matter be attentively considered, a sound argument may be drawn from Poesy, to show that there is agreeable to the spirit of man a more ample greatness, a more perfect order, and a more beautiful variety than it can anywhere (since the Fall) find in nature. And... | |
 | Richard Marback - 1999 - Liczba stron: 184
...where history lacks "that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man," poesy feigns for the imagination "a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety," thereby moving the mind to act on learning by imbuing knowledge with "magnanimity," "morality," and... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 2002 - Liczba stron: 868
...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 proportion0 inferior to the soul; by reason whereof there is agreeable to the spirit of man a more... | |
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