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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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Cassell's history of the war between France and ..., Volume 2; Volume 176

Edmund Ollier - 1871 - 648 pages
...particularly applicable to these conceptions of an ideal world — says that " the use of feigned histories hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the...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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Books and Reading: Or, What Books Shall I Read and how Shall I Read Them?

Noah Porter - 1871 - 404 pages
...cannot be computed. Of its products in literature Lord Bacon says: "The use of this feigned history has been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind...the world being in proportion inferior to the soul. . . . Therefore because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth...
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Books and Reading: Or, What Books Shall I Read and how Shall I Read Them?

Noah Porter - 1871 - 406 pages
...cannot be computed. Of its products in literature Lord Bacon says: "The use of this feigned history has been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind...the world being in proportion inferior to the soul. . . . Therefore because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth...
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Books and Reading: Or, What Books Shall I Read and how Shall I Read Them?

Noah Porter - 1871 - 408 pages
...cannot be computed. Of its products in literature Lord Bacon says: "The use of this feigned history has been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind...the world being in proportion inferior to the soul. . . . Therefore because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth...
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Legislative Documents, Volume 1

Iowa. General Assembly - 1872 - 964 pages
...Bacon, the patron eiint of the scientists, has given this thought a most félicitions expression : " 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 Dream of Pythagoras: And Other Poems

Emma Tatham - 1872 - 350 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...
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The Advancement of Learning

Francis Bacon - 1873 - 438 pages
...learning, and is nothing else but feigned history, which may be styled as well in prose as ^ in verse. 2. The use of this feigned history hath been to give...points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the \vorld being in proportion inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit...
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Cassell's History of the War Between France and Germany, 1870-1871, Volume 2

Edmund Ollier - 1871 - 604 pages
...applicable to these conceptions of an ideal world — says that " the use of feigned histories bath 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 in...
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The superhuman origin of the Bible inferred from itself. Congregational lect ...

Henry Rogers - 1874 - 496 pages
...symmetry, an etherial grace, which Nature never has. It is the province of poetry, as Bacon says, " to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of...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...
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Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, and Other Essays

David Masson - 1874 - 338 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 some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in the points wherein the nature of things doth deny it — the world being in proportion inferior to...
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