 | Edmund Burke - 1877 - 660 pages
...the words of Lord Bacon, the use of art "hath been and is to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it." The number of pictorial works hung this year was 1,346. This is slightly below the average of five years.... | |
 | George Dyer - 1812 - 240 pages
...and effect : " 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 spirit of roan, a... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1815 - 156 pages
...— " The use of this feigned history (Poetry) 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 spirit of man, a... | |
 | 1865 - 790 pages
...Bacon, ask, Where are the works which, as feigned histories, " give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it " ? where are the pictures which testify that " the world is in proportion inferior to the soul, and... | |
 | 1865 - 804 pages
...Bacon, ask, Where are the works which, as feigned histories, " give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it " ? where are the pictures which testify that " the world is in proportion inferior to the soul, and... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 pages
...prose as in verse. 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 spirit of man, a... | |
 | 1843 - 706 pages
...a quotation. " 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 spirit of man, a... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1824 - 642 pages
...prose as in verse. 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 spirit of man, a... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...prose as in verse. 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 spirit of man, a... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...prose as in verse. 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 spirit of man, a... | |
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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... 
