 | George Dyer - 1812 - 240 pages
...is, agreeable to the spirit of roan, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more ample variety, than can be found in the nature of things....Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have and by Mr. Alison and Mr. Knight, in their Treatises on Taste, to this principle! and they have each,... | |
 | George Dyer - 1814 - 316 pages
...the world being inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a...man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical : because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to... | |
 | George Dyer - 1814 - 394 pages
...the world being inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a...satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and • See Bishop Newton's Life of Milton. The biographer admits that Cambridge has produced a richer... | |
 | George Dyer - 1814 - 320 pages
...the world being inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a...events of true history, have not that magnitude which satisfitth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and » See Bishop Newton's Life of Milton. The biographer... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1815 - 160 pages
...in proportion, inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a...man, Poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical: because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to... | |
 | 1865 - 804 pages
...the world is in proportion inferior to the soul, and that there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a...variety, than can be found in the nature of things" 1 Where, in fine, is the art - creation that " doth raiae and erect the mind by submitting the show... | |
 | 1865 - 790 pages
...the world is in proportion inferior to the soul, and that there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a...variety, than can be found in the nature of things" i Where, in fine, is the art -creation that " doth raise and erect the mind by submitting the show... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 pages
...in proportion inferior to the soul : by reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a...man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical : because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to... | |
 | 1843 - 706 pages
...in proportion inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a...man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical ; because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1824 - 642 pages
...in proportion inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a...man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical : because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to... | |
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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; by reason whereof there is agreeable to the... 
