 | Hundred greatest men - 1885 - 530 pages
...extols poetry as "submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind," to the desires for " a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found m the nature of things." No man, however, can fully draw out the reasons why the human spirit feels... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - Artists - 1886 - 360 pages
...beautiful sentence in On the Advancement of Learning (Bk. ii.) — " The world being inferior to the soul j by reason whereof, there is agreeable to the spirit...variety than can be found in the nature of things." For the animating spirit is nature as much as the permeated matter. Orome, Constable, Turner; Mulready... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Literary Criticism - 1973 - 508 pages
...who extols poetry as "submitting the shews of things to the desires of the mind," to the desires for "a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, 10 than can be found in the nature of things." No man. however, can fully draw out the reasons why... | |
 | George Huntston Williams, Frank Forrester Church, Timothy Francis George - Religion - 1979 - 458 pages
...more advanced age of the world, and stored and stocked with infinite experiments and observations." there is agreeable to the spirit of man a more ample greatness, a more perfect order, and a more beautiful variety than it can anywhere (since the Fall) find in nature Whence... | |
 | Ahmad Hasan Qureshi - Animal mechanics - 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 - Literary Collections - 1982 - 220 pages
...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 therefore (poetry) was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it... | |
 | Kent T. Van den Berg - Drama - 1985 - 204 pages
...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 those...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American literature - 1994 - 518 pages
...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 man in those...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 - Philosophy - 1992 - 244 pages
...passage from which we quoted earlier. The use of this feigned history [ie, poetry] hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those...the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts and events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfteth the mind of man. poesy feigneth... | |
 | B. H. G. Wormald - History - 1993 - 436 pages
...those things which history denies to it;... a sound argument may be drawn from Poesy, to show that there is agreeable to the spirit of man a more ample greatness, a more perfect order, and a more beautiful variety than it can anywhere (since the Fall) find in nature. And... | |
| |
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... 
