 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
 | sir John Bowring - 1877 - 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...variety, than can be found in the nature of things." In thus setting forth, by means of the imagination, actions more heroical, a retribution more just,... | |
 | London city of Lond. sch - 1877 - 340 pages
...being in proportion inferior to the soul; by reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of m^n, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and...variety, than can be found in the nature of things." And it is possible even in these last days tha^ poetty should do something of this kind for us by duly... | |
 | Samuel Davey - English literature - 1879 - 302 pages
...deny it, the mind 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:... | |
 | Paul Stapfer - Civilization, Classical, in literature - 1880 - 428 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.... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Literary Criticism - 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... | |
 | Alvin B. Kernan - Biography & Autobiography - 1989 - 384 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 heroica!....... | |
 | Charles Wegener - Philosophy - 1992 - 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...the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts and events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfteth the mind of man. poesy feigneth... | |
 | William A. Covino - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1994 - 208 pages
...spirit, "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...variety, than can be found in the nature of things" (Advancement 2.4.2; 82). 17. For a full discussion of De Quincey's rhetorical theory, see Covino, "Thomas... | |
 | Arthur Davis - Philosophy - 1996 - 374 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 greater and more heroical. Because... | |
 | Philipp Wolf - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 364 pages
...Maßgabe göttlicher Vorsehung, dh eine vollkommene Welt. Darin liegt ihre wahre Größe („magnitude"): Therefore, 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;... | |
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