 | Henry Rogers - 1874 - 490 pages
...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; 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... | |
 | Deeps - 1875 - 358 pages
...Bacon's estimate of poetry or fiction as " feigned history " — " 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... | |
 | Thomas Griffith - 1875 - 478 pages
...grand office of the messengers of God. Their object is like that which Bacon assigns to Poetry — "to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of...the nature of things doth deny it, the world being so inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample... | |
 | 1880 - 1068 pages
...Bacon finely observes about the function of poetry, to feed our aspirations after perfection, and ' to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of...points wherein the nature of things doth deny it.' If there is any truth in these suggestions, it is allowable to look at modern art, not of course exclusively,... | |
 | Ahmad Hasan Qureshi - 1978 - 78 pages
...wrote: The use of this Feigned History hath heen to give sone shadow of satisfaction to the nind of nan in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it; the world heing in proportion inferior to the soul, hy reason whereof there is, agreeahle to the spirit of nan,... | |
 | Northrop Frye - 1982 - 220 pages
...between art and science is expressed by Francis Bacon in The Advancement of Learning: The use of (poetry) hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of Man in those points where the Nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul . . . And... | |
 | Kent T. Van den Berg - 1985 - 204 pages
...explicit. Poetry, he explains, "by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind . . . [gives] some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in...the world being in proportion inferior to the soul." 26 Shakespeare's stage objectifies this new sense of reality by offering a split image of the play's... | |
 | Alvin B. Kernan - 1989 - 384 pages
...poetry that largely held sway until the eighteenth century: The use of this feigned history [ie, poetry] 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1994 - 518 pages
...from The Advancement of Learning in which Bacon argues that poetry is "feigned history" that is used "to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of...the world being in proportion inferior to the soul" (The Works of Francis Bacon, . . ., I, 90). The Zoroastrian definition of poetry is a paraphrase of... | |
 | Charles Wegener - 1992 - 244 pages
...Bacon in the same passage from which we quoted earlier. The use of this feigned history [ie, poetry] 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... | |
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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... 
