 | Dugald Stewart - 1866 - 514 pages
...deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof, there ii agreeable to the spirit of man a more ample greatness, a more exact...because the acts or events of true history have not thai magni aide which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical... | |
 | Francis Beckford Ward - 1866 - 600 pages
...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...variety, than can be found in the nature of things. Art doth raise and erect the mind by submitting the shews of things to the desires of the mind ; whereas... | |
 | 1866 - 346 pages
...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...variety, than can be found in the nature of things. Art doth raise and erect the mind by submitting the shews of things to the desires of the mind ; whereas... | |
 | John Brown - 1866 - 468 pages
...the soul; by reason whereof, there is, agreeable to the spirit ufman, A MORE AMPLE GREATNESS, A MOKE EXACT GOODNESS AND A MORE ABSOLUTE VARIETY, than can be found in the nature of things. So it appeareth that Poesy" (and the others) " serveth and cimferreth to magnanimity, morality, and... | |
 | Nathaniel Holmes - 1867 - 670 pages
...Adv. of Learn., Book II. t Lib. nc 13. inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more...successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more just in retribution, and more according... | |
 | Nathaniel Holmes - 1867 - 636 pages
...Learn., Book II. 3 Lib. II. c. 13. inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more...events of true history have not that magnitude which satisficth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical : because true... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1859 - 740 pages
...Tennyson has given us the highest proof of his genius and culture in these ' feigned ' histories of a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and...variety, than can be found in the nature of * things' — tricked with few ornaments of style to disturb our vision of ' the shows wherewith he doth raise... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1857 - 598 pages
...world being inferior to the ' soul ; by reason whereof there is agreeable to the spirit of man a mere ' ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more...variety ' than can be found in the nature of things.' Such is the ground occupied alike by the lovers of Plato and the lovers of Bacon ; in fact, by every... | |
 | English authors - 1869 - 458 pages
...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...successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more just in retribution, and more according... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1869 - 446 pages
...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^arjetyj .than. can_be_fouridi.ja_the nature of ffimgs. TheiefQre,_because the acts or events... | |
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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; by reason whereof there is agreeable to the... 
