 | Dugald Stewart - 1860 - 390 pages
...being 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 the history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions, not so agreeable to... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1860 - 720 pages
...being 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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1908 - 898 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...the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts and events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of men, poesy f eigneth... | |
 | 1860 - 444 pages
...said, " The world being in proportion inferior to the soul, there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a...found in the nature of things. Therefore, because true history hath not in its acts or events that magnitude, that justness, poesy feigneth acts and... | |
 | 1865 - 810 pages
...points wherein the nature of ' things doth deny it : — a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, a ' more absolute variety, than can be found in the nature of things." Hence it is that the interest of a picture depends mainly upon the human element interfused in it,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1861 - 862 pages
...being 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... | |
 | John Brown - 1861 - 470 pages
...ideam This is what we call the leau ideal, or KOT' f^o-^v the ideal — what Bacon describes as " a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a...variety than can be found in the nature of things, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul, and the exhibition of which doth raiae and erect... | |
 | John Brown - 1861 - 516 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...VARIETY, than can be found in the nature of things. So it appeareth that Poesy" (and the others] " serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and... | |
 | John Parry - 1863 - 796 pages
...being 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...found in the nature of things. Therefore, because true history hath not in Its acts and ex'enU that magnitude, that justness, poesy feigneth acts and... | |
 | John Parry - 1863 - 780 pages
...tu the soul ; by reason whereof there is agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, ж more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety than...found in the nature of things. Therefore, because true history hath not in its acts and éventa that magnitude, that Justness, poesy felgneth acte and... | |
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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... 
