 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...  Baconian Essays - Page 108by Edward Walter Smithson - 1922 - 229 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Guy Andrew Thompson - 1914 - 238 pages
...or should not be. "24 a Ib., 155. 2 1 Ib., 168. The use of poetry, or "feigned history", says Bacon, "hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to...the world being in proportion inferior to the soul" (Adv. Learning, Bk. II, iv, 1). The Poet in Timon of Athens (I, i, 37) says of the Painter's work:... | |
 | Guy Andrew Thompson - 1914 - 230 pages
...31 Ib., 168. The use of poetry, or "feigned history", says Bacon, "hath been to give some shadow ol satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein...the world being in proportion inferior to the soul" (Adv. Learning, Bk. II, iv, 1). The Poet in Timon of Athens (I, i, 37) says of the Painter's work :... | |
 | Frank Herbert Hayward - 1915 - 272 pages
...art is man added to nature" (ars esthomo additus natures), and that the function of poetry is to lend "some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in...points wherein the nature of things doth deny it." (88) Is it possible to enjoy the rhythm of a language which we do not understand ? (89) "The vague... | |
 | 1880 - 1068 pages
...Bacon finely observes about the function of poetry, to feed our aspirations after perfection, and ' to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of...points wherein the nature of things doth deny it.' If there is any truth in these suggestions, it is allowable to look at modern art, not of course exclusively,... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1973 - 508 pages
...who extols poetry as "submitting the shews of things to the desires of the mind," to the desires for "a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, 10 than can be found in the nature of things." No man. however, can fully draw out the reasons why... | |
 | George Huntston Williams, Frank Forrester Church, Timothy Francis George - 1979 - 458 pages
...more advanced age of the world, and stored and stocked with infinite experiments and observations." 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 Whence... | |
 | Ahmad Hasan Qureshi - 1978 - 78 pages
...wrote: The use of this Feigned History hath heen to give sone shadow of satisfaction to the nind of nan in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it; the world heing in proportion inferior to the soul, hy reason whereof there is, agreeahle to the spirit of nan,... | |
 | Northrop Frye - 1982 - 220 pages
...between art and science is expressed by Francis Bacon in The Advancement of Learning: The use of (poetry) hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of Man in those points where the Nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul . . . And... | |
 | Kent T. Van den Berg - 1985 - 204 pages
...explicit. Poetry, he explains, "by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind . . . [gives] some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in...the world being in proportion inferior to the soul." 26 Shakespeare's stage objectifies this new sense of reality by offering a split image of the play's... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1994 - 518 pages
...from The Advancement of Learning in which Bacon argues that poetry is "feigned history" that is used "to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of...the world being in proportion inferior to the soul" (The Works of Francis Bacon, . . ., I, 90). The Zoroastrian definition of poetry is a paraphrase of... | |
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