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... The British Critic - Page 2641795Full view - About this book
| Luís de Camões - 1776 - 674 pages
...hath been to give fome ftiadowe of fatisfadtion to the mind of man in thofe points in which nature doth deny it: the world being in proportion inferior...foul : By reafon whereof there is agreeable to the fpirit of man a more ample greatnefle, a more exadl goodneffe, and a more abfolute variety then can... | |
| Luís de Camões - 1791 - 494 pages
...(Poetry) hath been to give fome Ihadowe of fatisfaction to the mind of man in thofe points in which nature doth deny it : the world being in proportion inferior to the foul : By reafon whereof the/e is agreeable to the fpirit of man a more ample greatnefle, a more i •<••{'. goodneffe,... | |
| 1795 - 768 pages
...forae fhadow of fatistanion to the mind of man in thofe poiiitf, wherein the nature of things dotli deny it, the world being, in proportion, inferior...the foul; by reafon whereof there is, agreeable to thefpiritof man, a more ample greatnefs, a more exact goodnefs, and a more abfolute variety, than can... | |
| George Dyer - 1812 - 240 pages
...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 more ample greatness, a more... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1815 - 160 pages
...history (Poetry) hath been to give some shadow of satisfac-< tion 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 more ample greatness, a more exact... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 pages
...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 more ample greatness, a more exact... | |
| 1843 - 706 pages
...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 more ample greatness, a more exact... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1824 - 642 pages
...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 more ample greatness, a more exact... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1825 - 432 pages
...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 more ample greatness, a more exact... | |
| George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...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 more ample greatness, a more exact... | |
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