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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... "
Poetics; Or a Series of Poems and Disquisitions on Poetry ... - Page 95
by George Dyer - 1812
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The North British review

1847 - 574 pages
...the use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man 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 in...
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The North British Review, Volume 6

1847 - 584 pages
...may so call it. " The use of this feigned history," under which he includes all the ideal arts — " the use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man on those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to...
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Portraits in Miniature: Or, Tableaux Du Coeur

Henrietta Joan Fry - 1848 - 304 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...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: With a ..., Volume 1

Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848 - 594 pages
...which may be styled as well in prose as in verse. The use of this feigned history halh been to rive some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in...reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more aW solute variety, than can be found...
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Lectures on Painting

James Barry, John Opie, Henry Fuseli - 1848 - 586 pages
...arts. Speaking of poetry, he remarks most admirably and justly — "The use of this fained historie hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the...in those points wherein the nature of things doth denie it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soule : by reason •whereof there is agreeable...
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Selections from English prose writers, for translation into Greek and Latin ...

Henry Wright Phillott - 1849 - 224 pages
...predispositions of seasons ; and the speedy cessation declared as much. Life of King Henry VII. H, The use of this feigned history hath been to give...being in proportion inferior to the soul ; by reason thereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 pages
...history, which may be styled as well in prose as in Tse. The use of this feigned history hath been to I ter formulas. Antitheta are theses argued "pro et...laborious : but, in such as are able to do it, to infe- -1 rior to the soul; by reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample...
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Thoughts on Self-culture, Addressed to Women

Maria Georgina Shirreff Grey, Emily Anne Eliza Shirreff - 1851 - 496 pages
...as Lord Bacon beautifully expresses it, " to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of men 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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Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning

Francis Bacon - 1851 - 376 pages
...Ufe of this Feigned Hiftory hath been to give fome fhadow of fatisfaftion to the mind of Man in thofe points wherein the Nature of things doth deny it, the World being in proportion inferior to the foul ; by reafon whereof there is, agreeable to the fpirit of Man, a more ample Greatnefs, a more exaft...
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 pages
...[earning, 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...
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