 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 pages
...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 greatness, a more...successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more just in retribution, and more according... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 pages
...deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul; by reason whereof there is, agreeable to ndations have proceeded from childless men ; which have sought to express the images of their hcroical ; because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to... | |
 | James Douglas (of Cavers.) - 1839 - 404 pages
...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 greatness, a more exact...and more heroical ; because true history propoundeth successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore Poesy... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 pages
...aspires to perfection. Tins world is inferior to the soul, by reason whereof there is. agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more...variety than can be found in the nature of things. — BACON. The soul during her confinement within this prison of the body, is doomed by fate to undergo... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1839 - 374 pages
...PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION. Tins world is inferior to the soul, by reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more...absolute variety than can be found in the nature of things.—BACON. I. The mind aspires to perfection. The soul during her confinement within this prison... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...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 greatness, a more...successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more just l Painters aml poets have equal... | |
 | 1841 - 832 pages
...the spirit of man, a mort- ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, th:m can be found in the nature of things. Therefore, because...events of true history have not that magnitude which .-ati-sficth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroica! ; because true... | |
 | 1849 - 608 pages
...This is what we call the beau ideal, or xar' aj-oxiv the ideal — what Bacon so nobly describes as " a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and...variety than can be found in the nature of things, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul, and the exhibition of which doth raise and erect... | |
 | Samuel Tyler - 1844 - 214 pages
...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 greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety than caw be found in the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 730 pages
...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 greatness, a more...events of true history have not that magnitude which satisneth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical : because true... | |
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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... 
