| Edmund Burke - 1877 - عدد الصفحات: 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...those 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... | |
| George Dyer - 1812 - عدد الصفحات: 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 the mind...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... | |
| George Dyer - 1814 - عدد الصفحات: 320
...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 mind of...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,... | |
| George Dyer - 1814 - عدد الصفحات: 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,... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1815 - عدد الصفحات: 156
...apT pears to have been almost intuitive :• — " The use of this feigned history (Poetry) hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of...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... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1815 - عدد الصفحات: 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 of things doth deny it, the world being, in proportion, inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is agreeable to... | |
| 1865 - عدد الصفحات: 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,... | |
| 1865 - عدد الصفحات: 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,... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - عدد الصفحات: 648
...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 mind of...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... | |
| 1843 - عدد الصفحات: 706
...though the passage is rather hackneyed as a quotation. " The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of...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... | |
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