 | Henry Reed - 1857 - 424 pages
...repeated : — "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 ; by reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1857 - 854 pages
...prose as in verse. 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 ; by reason whereof there is agreeable to the spirit of man a more... | |
 | 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, Basil Montagu - 1859 - 616 pages
...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 jreatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found in the nature of things.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1859 - 856 pages
...prose as in verse. 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 ; by reason whereof there is agreeable to the spirit of man a more... | |
 | Benjamin Gregory - 1859 - 210 pages
...for its utility thus : — " The use of poetry has 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 ; by reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1859 - 508 pages
...as in verse. 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 ; by reason whereof, there is agreeable to the spirit of man a more... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1860 - 390 pages
...n. 1, 1. 1. — 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, by reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more... | |
 | 1865 - 810 pages
...For " the use of art," as Bacon tells us, " hath been to give some shadow of ' satisfaction to the mind of man in ' those 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... | |
 | 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 it ; the world being in proportion inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a... | |
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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... 
