 | George Dyer - 1812 - 240 strani
...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 the nature of things....Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have and by Mr. Alison and Mr. Knight, in their Treatises on Taste, to this principle! and they have each,... | |
 | George Dyer - 1814 - 394 strani
...being inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute...satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and • See Bishop Newton's Life of Milton. The biographer admits that Cambridge has produced a richer... | |
 | George Dyer - 1814 - 320 strani
...being inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute...events of true history, have not that magnitude which satisfitth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and » See Bishop Newton's Life of Milton. The biographer... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1815 - 156 strani
...proportion, inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute...events greater and more heroical: because true history propounded! the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice,... | |
 | 1865 - 790 strani
...in proportion inferior to the soul, and that there is, agreeable to 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" i Where, in fine, is the art -creation that " doth raise and erect the mind by submitting the show... | |
 | 1865 - 804 strani
...in proportion inferior to the soul, and that there is, agreeable to 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" 1 Where, in fine, is the art - creation that " doth raiae and erect the mind by submitting the show... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 strani
...proportion inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more .absolute...magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth act& and events greater and more heroical : because true history propoundeth the successes and issues... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 432 strani
...agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolnte variety, than can be found in the nature of things....events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfied! the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical: because true... | |
 | 1825 - 412 strani
...distinguishes him equally on subjects of taste as in philosophy, " have not that magnitude which satistieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical; because :rue history propoundeth the successes and ssucs of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue... | |
 | 1825 - 426 strani
...taste as in philosophy, "have not Hi. 1 1 magnitude which satisueth the mind of man, poesy fcigneth acts and events greater and more heroical; because true history propoundeth the successes and ssues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more... | |
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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; by reason whereof there is agreeable to the... 
