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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... "
A System of Rhetoric - Page 596
by Charles William Bardeen - 1884 - 673 pages
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Poetics; Or a Series of Poems and Disquisitions on Poetry ...

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,...
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History of the University and Colleges of Cambridge: Including ..., Volume 1

George Dyer - 1814 - 316 pages
...wherein 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...history, have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical : because true history propoundeth...
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History of the University and Colleges of Cambridge: Including ..., Volume 1

George Dyer - 1814 - 320 pages
...wherein -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...events of true history, have not that magnitude which satisfitth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and ยป See Bishop Newton's Life of Milton. The biographer...
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The Descent of Liberty: A Mask

Leigh Hunt - 1815 - 156 pages
...nature of things doth deny it, the world being, in proportion, inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample...history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, Poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical: because true history propounded!...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 98

1865 - 804 pages
...where are the pictures which testify that " the world is in proportion inferior to the soul, and that there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample...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...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 98

1865 - 790 pages
...where are the pictures which testify that " the world is in proportion inferior to the soul, and that there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample...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...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Volume 1

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 pages
...nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul : by reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample...history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical : because true history propoundeth...
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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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The North American Review, Volume 56

1843 - 706 pages
...nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample...history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical ; because true history propoundeth...
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Albans ..., Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1824 - 642 pages
...nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample...history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical : because true history propoundeth...
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