 | Francis Bacon - 1859 - 852 pages
...may be styled as well in prose as in verse. The use of this Feigned History hath been to give some x shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those...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... | |
 | Edward Young - 1857 - 370 pages
...OF TRINITY COLLEG-E, CAMBRIDGE J AUTHOR OF "ART: ITS CONSTITUTION AND CAPACITIES," " The world being 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... | |
 | Robert Alfred Vaughan - 1858 - 426 pages
...which Mr. Young has chosen for his motto, indicate very plainly his position : — ' The world being 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... | |
 | 1858 - 588 pages
..." The use of feigned history, or fiction, is to give to the mind of man some shadow of satisfaction in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it." The sympathies of Dickens have ever been with this Baconian theory ; and though many may affect to contemn... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1859 - 856 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 in... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1859 - 508 pages
..." is nothing else but feigned history, which may be styled [written] 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 in... | |
 | Benjamin Gregory - 1859 - 210 pages
...accounts for the existence of poetry, and pleads for its utility thus : — " The use of poetry has been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind...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... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1860 - 390 pages
...shows], now bright with gold, Then dusk with horrid shades. — Virgil (Kennedy). P. 65, n. 1, 1. 1. — 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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1908 - 898 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... | |
 | 1865 - 810 pages
...signification of those many voices through which she speaks to man. For " the use of art," as Bacon tells us, " hath been to give some shadow of ' satisfaction to...points wherein the nature of ' things doth deny it : — a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, a ' more absolute variety, than can be found in... | |
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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... 
