 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 592by Charles William Bardeen - 1884 - 673 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - 1859 - 852 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...events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical; because true... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1857 - 854 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...events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical ; because true... | |
 | Edward Young - 1857 - 370 pages
..."ART: ITS CONSTITUTION AND CAPACITIES," " The world being inferior to the soul : by reason whereof, there is agreeable to the spirit of man a more ample...variety than can be found in the nature of things." LORD BACON : On the Advancement of Learning Bk, II, LONDON: LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, LONGMANS, AND ROBERTS.... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1857 - 424 pages
...invention, but in the discovery of truth : — not only, in Lord Bacon's words, " for the invention of a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety," but to revive the neglected glories of the world as it is, to gather the fragments of splendour from... | |
 | Robert Alfred Vaughan - 1858 - 426 pages
...indicate very plainly his position : — ' The world being inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is agreeable to the spirit of man a more ample...variety than can be found in the nature of things.' Such is the ground occupied alike by the lovers of Plato and the lovers of Bacon; in fact, by every... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1859 - 856 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...events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical ; because true... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1859 - 508 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...events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more hcroical : because true... | |
 | Benjamin Gregory - 1859 - 210 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...variety, than can be found in the nature of things."* This effort, " to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind,'' which proves the necessity of poetry,... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1859 - 616 pages
...inferior to the soul; by reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample jreatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety,...nature of things. Therefore, because the acts or events ol true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 516 pages
...For if the matter be attentively considered, a sound argument may be drawn from Poesy, to show that there is agreeable to the spirit of man a more ample greatness, a more perfect order, and a more beautiful variety than it can anywhere (since the Fall) find in nature. And... | |
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