 | Henry Wright Phillott - 1849 - 224 pages
...nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul ; by reason thereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample...and more heroical : because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1849 - 608 pages
...what we call the beau ideal, or хат' £J;oX'lv the ideal — what Bacon so nobly describes as " on to say — "A waiting woman the world being in proportion inferior to the soul, and the exhibition of which doth raise and erect... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 pages
...of things ' doth deny it, the world being in proportion infe- -1 rior to the soul; by reason whereof 2 ol true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events... | |
 | Maria Georgina Shirreff Grey, Emily Anne Eliza Shirreff - 1851 - 496 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...and more heroical ; because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1852 - 238 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...and more heroical : because true history propoundeth the successes and issues 7 Vicl. Cic. ad Fam. ix. 16; and Sueton. Vit. Cacs. « Hor. Ep. ad Pis. 9.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 pages
...things. Therefore, because the acts or events ol true history have not that magnitude which satisfied the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater...and more heroical : because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy... | |
 | 1853 - 604 pages
...one dares to call trash, and whose very definition of art was couched in expressions like these:—" There is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample...variety than can be found in the nature of things ;" " the use of feigned history is to give to the mind of man some shadow of satisfaction in those... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 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...and more heroical ; because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1877 - 394 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...acts and events greater and more heroical ; because the history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions, not so agreeable to the merits of virtue... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 514 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...magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy fcigneth acts and events greater and more heroical : because true history propoundeth the successes... | |
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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... 
