| Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 pages
...learning, and is nothing else but feigned history, which may be styled as well in prose as in verse. The use of this feigned history hath been to give...reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found... | |
| Henry Rogers - 1838 - 150 pages
...contained in his " Advancement of Learning," that it is a " feigned history, designed to give some satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it — to raise and erect the mind by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind." That... | |
| James Douglas (of Cavers.) - 1839 - 406 pages
...said of its daughter Poetry, and which we may, with no less justice, transfer to Imagination itself. " The use of this feigned history hath been to give...reason whereof, there is agreeable to the spirit of man a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety than can be found in... | |
| Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 pages
...340 NOTE IV.— Text 265. PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION. I. The mind aspires to perfection. Tins world is 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 variety than can be found in... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...learning, and is nothing else but feigned history, which may be styled as well in prose as in verse. The use of this feigned history hath been to give...reason whereof there is agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found... | |
| 1841 - 832 pages
...is nothing el«p but feigned history. The tur oft/iiifeignril hiilnry hath heen to give some shadows of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of thing» doth dray it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there... | |
| Samuel Tyler - 1844 - 214 pages
...behests with more accuracy than Bacon himself. "The use of poesy (says he in the advancement of learning) hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature ot things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul; by reason whereof there... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 778 pages
...learning, and is nothing else but feigned history, which may be styled as well in prose as in verse. The use of this feigned history hath been to give...reason whereof there is agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 732 pages
...history, which may he styled as well in prose as in verse. The use of this feigned history hath heen to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of...wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world heing in agreeahle to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more proportion inferior to the... | |
| 1847 - 784 pages
...soul of man than that in which he lives — giving to the mind of man " some shadow of satisfaction on those points wherein the nature of things doth deny...reason whereof there is agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found... | |
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