 | John Parry - 1863 - 780 pages
...The use of this feigned history hath been to gire some shadow of satisfaction to the mint! of man on those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior tu the soul ; by reason whereof there is agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, ж... | |
 | 1865 - 538 pages
...signification of those many 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...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... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1866 - 514 pages
...else but feigned history, which may be styled [written] as well in prose as in verse. The use of thi* feigned history hath been, to give some shadow of...proportion inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof, there ii agreeable to the spirit of man a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute... | |
 | Francis Beckford Ward - 1866 - 600 pages
...Discord, Mr. Watts may bo right in his imaginative sketch. Bacon has said that the use of art and poesy " hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of men on those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being, in proportion, inferior... | |
 | 1866 - 346 pages
...Discord, Mr. Watts may bo right in his imaginative sketch. Bacon has said that the use of art and poesy " hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of men on those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being, in proportion, inferior... | |
 | Nathaniel Holmes - 1867 - 636 pages
...learning, and is nothing else but feigned history, which may be styled as well in prose as in verse. The use of this feigned history hath been to give...things doth deny it, the world being in proportion 1 AIlI-. of Learn., Book II. 3 Lib. II. c. 13. inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is, agreeable... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...fained " (feigned) History, which may be styled as well in prose as in verse. The use of this "fained" History hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction...inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is (ie in poetry), agreeable to (in order to satisfy) the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1857 - 598 pages
...which Mr. Young has chosen for his motto, indicate very plainly his position : — ' The world being inferior to the ' soul ; by reason whereof there is agreeable to the spirit of man a mere ' ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety ' than can be found in the... | |
 | Noah Porter - 1871 - 404 pages
...cannot be computed. Of its products in literature Lord Bacon says: "The use of this feigned history has been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind...the world being in proportion inferior to the soul. . . . Therefore because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth... | |
 | Noah Porter - 1871 - 406 pages
...cannot be computed. Of its products in literature Lord Bacon says: "The use of this feigned history has been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind...the world being in proportion inferior to the soul. . . . Therefore because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth... | |
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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... 
