 | John Churton Collins - English literature - 1912 - 310 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Kent T. Van den Berg - Drama - 1985 - 204 pages
...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 offering a split image of the... | |
 | Alvin B. Kernan - Biography & Autobiography - 1989 - 384 pages
...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 ample greatness, a more exact... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American literature - 1994 - 518 pages
...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 of poetry is a paraphrase... | |
 | Charles Wegener - Philosophy - 1992 - 244 pages
...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 ample greatness, a more exact... | |
 | Arthur Davis - Philosophy - 1996 - 374 pages
...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 ample greatness, a more exact... | |
 | Kenneth Muir - Drama - 2002 - 224 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 2002 - 868 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 proportion0 inferior to the soul; by reason whereof there is agreeable to the spirit of man a more... | |
 | Jonathan Dollimore - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 420 pages
...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 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... 
