 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...  American Anthropologist - Page 1221893Full view - About this book
 | Anne Marsh-Caldwell - English fiction - 1848 - 512 pages
...oft-told tale has begun, while life is yet to the young clear eye that which poetry is or should be,—"A more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a...variety, than can be found in the nature of things." The teens! Oh, what a gush of promise is there in that first burst of fervent life into flower! But... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848 - 594 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 aW solute variety, than can be found in the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts or events... | |
 | John Harris - Human beings - 1849 - 526 pages
...a daughter of imagination, may be justly affirmed of the imagination itself. " There is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more...because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, Poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical... | |
 | Henry Wright Phillott - 1849 - 224 pages
...deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul ; by reason thereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more...because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events, greater and more heroical... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Biography - 1850 - 590 pages
...it, the world being in proportion infe- -1 rior to the soul; by reason whereof there is, agreeable s :" " Hoc Ithacus veut, et magno mercentur Atridœ...resume also that which I mentioned before, touching pr ol true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events... | |
 | Maria Georgina Shirreff Grey, Emily Anne Eliza Shirreff - Self-culture - 1851 - 496 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...because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1852 - 238 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...because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical... | |
 | English literature - 1853 - 604 pages
...trash, and whose very definition of art was couched in expressions like these:—" There is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more...variety than can be found in the nature of things ;" " the use of feigned history is to give to the mind of man some shadow of satisfaction in those... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Human information processing - 1854 - 514 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...because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy fcigneth acts and events greater and more heroical... | |
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