 | Basil Willey - 1922 - 60 pages
...learning,1 and is ' nothing /else but feigned history.' 3 Its use is ' to give some shadow of satisI faction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of J things doth deny it.' It achieves this by its power to ' join that \ which nature hath severed '... | |
 | Harold Begbie - 1923 - 264 pages
...the longing of man's soul for "permanence amid change, for security in unrest," and that its use has been "to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind...points wherein the nature of things doth deny it." This manifest transcendence of the human spirit, what can physical science say about it, what can it... | |
 | 1880 - 1068 pages
...Bacon finely observes about the function of poetry, to feed our aspirations after perfection, and ' to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of...points wherein the nature of things doth deny it.' If there is any truth in these suggestions, it is allowable to look at modern art, not of course exclusively,... | |
 | Ahmad Hasan Qureshi - 1978 - 78 pages
...wrote: The use of this Feigned History hath heen to give sone shadow of satisfaction to the nind of nan in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it; the world heing in proportion inferior to the soul, hy reason whereof there is, agreeahle to the spirit of nan,... | |
 | Northrop Frye - 1982 - 220 pages
...between art and science is expressed by Francis Bacon in The Advancement of Learning: The use 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... | |
 | Kent T. Van den Berg - 1985 - 204 pages
...explicit. Poetry, he explains, "by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind . . . [gives] some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in...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 play's... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1994 - 518 pages
...from The Advancement of Learning in which Bacon argues that poetry is "feigned history" that is used "to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of...the world being in proportion inferior to the soul" (The Works of Francis Bacon, . . ., I, 90). The Zoroastrian definition of poetry is a paraphrase of... | |
 | William Gerber - 1997 - 252 pages
...aesthetic appreciation conveyed by Francis Bacon (1561-1626), who wrote that poetry exists to (316) "give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man...points wherein the nature of things doth deny it"; that is, satisfaction to a mind that, on the one hand, cognitively sees things as they are but, on... | |
 | Philipp Wolf - 1998 - 364 pages
...geistigen Vermögen, von der Empirie freigesetzte Poesie nennt er „Feigned History". Ihr Zweck sei es, „to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind...points wherein the nature of things doth deny it". Nur, und hier geht Bacon weit hinaus über die Ritter-Schule, befriedigt die Literatur nicht nur die... | |
 | Michael Werth Gelber - 2002 - 358 pages
...Royal Society, of whom Thomas Sprat was perhaps the most outspoken. According to Bacon, poetry may 'give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man...points wherein the nature of things doth deny it'; but at its best it is only 'feigned history' and is therefore never to be accepted as truth. 17 According... | |
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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... 
