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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 Collected Works of Dugald Stewart: Dissertation : exhibiting the ... - Page 7
by Dugald Stewart - 1860
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Annual Register, Volume 118

Edmund Burke - 1877 - 660 pages
...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 years....
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The British Critic, Volume 6

1795 - 758 pages
...this feigned hiftofy hath been td give fome fhadow of fatisfaflion to the mind of man in thofe point?, wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being, in proportion, inferior to the foul; by reafon whereof there is, agreeable to the fpiritof many a more ample greatnefs, a more exaft...
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Poetics; Or a Series of Poems and Disquisitions on Poetry ...

George Dyer - 1812 - 240 pages
...great in criticism no less than in philosophy, speaks on this subject with much dignity and effect : " The use of this feigned history hath been to give...reason whereof there 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...
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History of the University and Colleges of Cambridge: Including ..., Volume 1

George Dyer - 1814 - 394 pages
...learning, and is nothing less than that feigned history which may be styled as well in prose as poetry. " The use of this feigned History hath been to give...the nature of things doth deny it, the world being inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness,...
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History of the University and Colleges of Cambridge: Including ..., Volume 1

George Dyer - 1814 - 316 pages
...learning, and is nothing less than that feigned history which may be styled as well in prose as poetry. " The use of this feigned History hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to tbe mind of man, in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being inferior...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 98

1865 - 804 pages
...Academy we would, in the words of Lord Bacon, ask, Where are the works which, as feigned histories, " give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man...those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it " ? where are the pictures which testify that " the world is in proportion inferior to the soul, and...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 98

1865 - 790 pages
...Academy we would, in the words of Lord Bacon, ask, Where are the works which, as feigned histories, " give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man...those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it " ? where are the pictures which testify that " the world is in proportion inferior to the soul, and...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban ..., Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1819 - 640 pages
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Sig. 2x2-4B3 of vol.1 . Lectures, delivered in the Royal academy

James Barry - 1831 - 228 pages
...imitative arts ; speaking of poetry, he remarks most admirably and justly. " The use of thisfained historic hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the...in those points, wherein the nature of things doth denie it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soule: by reason whereof there is agreeable...
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The Messiah, a poem

Robert Montgomery - 1832 - 474 pages
...' The use of this feigned history* hath bcen, to give some satisfaction to the mind of man in tho;e points wherein the nature of things doth deny it,...inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is, agrceable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more exaet goodness, and a more absolute...
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