 | John Brown - 1865 - 462 pages
...Poesy, Painting, Music, cfc.) "hath been to give SOME SHADOW OF SATISFACTION TO THE MIND OF MAN IN THESE POINTS WHEREIN THE NATURE OF THINGS DOTH DENY IT,...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... | |
 | 1865 - 538 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... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1866 - 514 pages
...else but feigned history, which may be styled [written] as well in prose as in verse. The use of thi* feigned history hath been, to give some shadow of...proportion inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof, there ii agreeable to the spirit of man a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute... | |
 | 1866 - 346 pages
...Discord, Mr. Watts may bo right in his imaginative sketch. Bacon has said that the use of art and poesy " hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of men on those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being, in proportion, inferior... | |
 | Francis Beckford Ward - 1866 - 600 pages
...Discord, Mr. Watts may bo right in his imaginative sketch. Bacon has said that the use of art and poesy " hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of men on those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being, in proportion, inferior... | |
 | Nathaniel Holmes - 1867 - 636 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...things doth deny it, the world being in proportion 1 AIlI-. of Learn., Book II. 3 Lib. II. c. 13. inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is, agreeable... | |
 | Nathaniel Holmes - 1867 - 670 pages
...nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion l Adv. of Learn., Book II. t Lib. nc 13. 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... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...fained " (feigned) History, which may be styled as well in prose as in verse. The use of this "fained" History hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction...inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is (ie in poetry), agreeable to (in order to satisfy) the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more... | |
 | English authors - 1869 - 458 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1869 - 446 pages
...may be styled as well in prose as irTverseT" 2. The use of this feigned history hath been to give I 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 absolute^arjetyj .than. can_be_fouridi.ja_the... | |
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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... 
