 | William Francis C. Wigston - 1891 - 502 pages
...use of this feigned History (as he calls poetry) 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... | |
 | William Bruce Robertson - 1892 - 266 pages
...history, and the use of this feigned history is to give the mind of man some shadow of satisfaction in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being inferior to the soul, and because there is agreeable to the mind a more and more ample greatness, a more exact goodness,... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1892 - 376 pages
...verse, may be so classed, he says the use of it " hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it " ; and again, that it is thought to " have some participation of divineness because it doth raise... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Kent T. Van den Berg - 1985 - 204 pages
...submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind . . . [gives] 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." 26 Shakespeare's stage objectifies this new sense of reality by... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1994 - 518 pages
...Bacon argues that poetry is "feigned history" that is used "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" (The Works of Francis Bacon, . . ., I, 90). The Zoroastrian definition... | |
 | Alvin B. Kernan - 1989 - 384 pages
...century: The use of this feigned history [ie, poetry] 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... | |
 | Charles Wegener - 1992 - 244 pages
...earlier. The use of this feigned history [ie, poetry] 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... | |
 | Arthur Davis - 1996 - 374 pages
...prose as in verse. The use of the 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... | |
 | William Gerber - 1997 - 252 pages
...Francis Bacon (1561-1626), who wrote that poetry exists to (316) "give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it"; that is, satisfaction to a mind that, on the one hand, cognitively sees things as they are but, on... | |
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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... 
