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... Studies in Poetry and Criticism - Стр. 271авторы: John Churton Collins - 1905 - Страниц: 309Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
| Edmund Burke - 1877 - Страниц: 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 - Страниц: 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 - Страниц: 240
...great in criticism no less than in philosophy, speaks on this subject with much dignity and effect : " The use of this feigned history hath been to give...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 - Страниц: 394
...learning, and is nothing less than that feigned history which may be styled as well in prose as poetry. " The use of this feigned History hath been to give...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 - Страниц: 320
...satisfaction to the 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,...man, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found in the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts,... | |
| George Dyer - 1814 - Страниц: 316
...learning, and is nothing less than 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 tbe mind of man, in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being inferior... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1815 - Страниц: 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...man, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found in the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1815 - Страниц: 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...man, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found in the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts... | |
| 1865 - Страниц: 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 - Страниц: 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... | |
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