 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...  Advancement of Learning - Page 101by Francis Bacon - 1869 - 379 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Dugald Stewart - 1859 - 508 pages
...be styled [written] as well in prose as in verse. The use of this feigned history hath been, to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in...ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found in the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts or events... | |
 | Benjamin Gregory - 1859 - 210 pages
...the existence of poetry, and pleads for its utility thus : — " The use of poetry has been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man, in...ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found in the nature of things."* This effort, " to give some shadow of... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1859 - 856 pages
...which may be styled as well in prose as in verse. The use of this Feigned History hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in...ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found in the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts or events... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1859 - 616 pages
...which may be styled as well in prose as in verse. The use of this feigned history hath been to jive some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in...there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample jreatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found in the nature of things.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1860 - 390 pages
...shades. — Virgil (Kennedy). P. 65, n. 1, 1. 1. — The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in...ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found in the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts or events... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1908 - 898 pages
...The use of this feigned History hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man on those points wherein the nature of things doth deny...ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found in the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts and events... | |
 | 1865 - 810 pages
...voices through which she speaks to man. For " the use of art," as Bacon tells us, " hath been to give some shadow of ' satisfaction to the mind of man in...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1861 - 862 pages
...which may be styled as well in prose as in verse. The use of this Feigned History hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in...ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found in the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts or events... | |
 | John Brown - 1861 - 516 pages
...Poesy, Painting, Music, &c.) " hath been to give SOME SHADOW OF SATISFACTION TO THE MIND OF MAN IN THESE POINTS WHEREIN THE NATURE OF THINGS DOTH DENY IT,...AMPLE GREATNESS, A MORE EXACT GOODNESS, AND A MORE ABSOLUTE VARIETY, than can be found in the nature of things. So it appeareth that Poesy" (and the others]... | |
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