 | Henry Rogers - Bible - 1874 - 492 pages
...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 spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more exact... | |
 | David Masson - 1874 - 338 pages
...use of this Feigned History hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in the 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 greatness, a more exact... | |
 | Deeps - 1875 - 358 pages
...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 not that magnitude which satisfieth... | |
 | Thomas Griffith - 1875 - 478 pages
...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Knowledge, Theory of - 1876 - 504 pages
...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 ample greatness, a more exact... | |
 | London city of Lond. sch - 1877 - 340 pages
..."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 m^n, a more ample greatness, a more exact... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 pages
...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 ample greatness, a more exact... | |
 | sir John Bowring - 1877 - 594 pages
...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 more ample greatness, a more exact... | |
 | Paul Stapfer - 1880 - 428 pages
...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 more ample greatness, a more exact... | |
 | Paul Stapfer - Civilization, Classical, in literature - 1880 - 520 pages
...(as he calls poetry) hath been togive some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those point* 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 greatness, a more exact... | |
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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... 
