 | Edmund Burke - 1877 - Počet stránok 660
...imagination can soar as well as sink, and that, in the words of Lord Bacon, the use of art "hath been and is to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of...points wherein the nature of things doth deny it." The number of pictorial works hung this year was 1,346. This is slightly below the average of five years.... | |
 | 1795 - Počet stránok 758
...this feigned hiftofy hath been td give fome fhadow of fatisfaflion to the mind of man in thofe point?, wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being, in proportion, inferior to the foul; by reafon whereof there is, agreeable to the fpiritof many a more ample greatnefs, a more exaft... | |
 | George Dyer - 1812 - Počet stránok 240
...philosophy, speaks on this subject with much dignity and effect : " The use of this feigned history hath been to give -*some shadow of satisfaction to...reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of roan, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more ample variety, than can be found in... | |
 | George Dyer - 1814 - Počet stránok 320
...that feigned history which may be styled as well in prose as poetry. " The use of this feigned History hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the...-the nature of things doth deny it, the world being inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness,... | |
 | George Dyer - 1814 - Počet stránok 316
...prose as poetry. " The use of this feigned History hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to tbe mind of man, in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1815 - Počet stránok 156
...knowledge apT pears to have been almost intuitive :• — " The use of this feigned history (Poetry) hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the...the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found in the nature of things. Therefore,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1815 - Počet stránok 160
...:— - ; " The use of this feigned history (Poetry) hath been to give some shadow of satisfac-< tion to the mind of man, in those points wherein the nature...the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found in the nature of things. Therefore,... | |
 | 1865 - Počet stránok 790
...Academy we would, in the words of Lord Bacon, ask, Where are the works which, as feigned histories, " give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man...those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it " ? where are the pictures which testify that " the world is in proportion inferior to the soul, and... | |
 | 1865 - Počet stránok 804
...Academy we would, in the words of Lord Bacon, ask, Where are the works which, as feigned histories, " give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man...those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it " ? where are the pictures which testify that " the world is in proportion inferior to the soul, and... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - Počet stránok 648
...feigned history, which may be stiled as well in prose as in verse. The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the...the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found in the nature of things. Therefore,... | |
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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... 
