 | Henry Rogers - 1874 - 490 pages
...never has. It is the province of poetry, as Bacon says, " 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... | |
 | David Masson - 1874 - 338 pages
...of things " " The .use of feigned history is to give to the mind of man some shadow of satisfaction in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it." The battle, we say, must be fought with these phrases. Nor is the battle confined to the art of painting.... | |
 | Thomas Griffith - 1875 - 478 pages
...Their object is like that which Bacon assigns to Poetry — "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 so inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample... | |
 | Deeps - 1875 - 358 pages
...history " — " The use of this feigned history 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 . . . Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1876 - 504 pages
...as in verse. 2. 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... | |
 | sir John Bowring - 1877 - 594 pages
...nothing else but feigned history, the use of which 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 (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1877 - 690 pages
...the words of Lord Bacon, the use of art "hath been and is to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it." The number of pictorial works hung this year was 1,346. This is slightly below the average of five years.... | |
 | London city of Lond. sch - 1877 - 340 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 m^n, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found... | |
 | Paul Stapfer - 1880 - 428 pages
...use of this feigned history (as he calls poetry) hath been togive 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... | |
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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... 
