 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...  A System of Rhetoric - Page 596by Charles William Bardeen - 1884 - 673 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Brown - English essays - 1866 - 468 pages
...the soul; by reason whereof, there is, agreeable to the spirit ufman, A MORE AMPLE GREATNESS, A MOKE EXACT GOODNESS AND A MORE ABSOLUTE VARIETY, than can be found in the nature of things. So it appeareth that Poesy" (and the others) " serveth and cimferreth to magnanimity, morality, and... | |
 | Nathaniel Holmes - 1867 - 670 pages
...being in proportion l Adv. of Learn., Book II. t Lib. nc 13. inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample...history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical : because true history propoundeth... | |
 | Nathaniel Holmes - 1867 - 636 pages
...proportion 1 AIlI-. of Learn., Book II. 3 Lib. II. c. 13. inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample...events of true history have not that magnitude which satisficth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical : because true... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...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...history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical ; because true history propoundeth... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1859 - 740 pages
...Tennyson has given us the highest proof of his genius and culture in these ' feigned ' histories of a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and...variety, than can be found in the nature of * things' — tricked with few ornaments of style to disturb our vision of ' the shows wherewith he doth raise... | |
 | Henry Allon - Christianity - 1857 - 598 pages
...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...variety ' than can be found in the nature of things.' Such is the ground occupied alike by the lovers of Plato and the lovers of Bacon ; in fact, by every... | |
 | English authors - English literature - 1869 - 458 pages
...nature of things doth 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...history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical. Because true history propoundeth... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Logic - 1869 - 446 pages
...nature of things doth 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^arjetyj .than. can_be_fouridi.ja_the nature of ffimgs. TheiefQre,_because the acts or events... | |
 | Edmund Ollier - 1871 - 648 pages
...nature of things doth 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...variety, than can be found in the nature of things. And therefore poetry was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise... | |
 | Noah Porter - 1871 - 404 pages
...wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul. . . . 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, because true history propoundeth... | |
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