 | John Brown - 1861 - 516 pages
...IT, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof, there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, A MORE AMPLE GREATNESS, A MORE...VARIETY, than can be found in the nature of things. So it appeareth that Poesy" (and the others] " serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and... | |
 | John Brown - 1861 - 470 pages
...dicendi ideam This is what we call the leau ideal, or KOT' f^o-^v the ideal — what Bacon describes as " a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and...variety than can be found in the nature of things, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul, and the exhibition of which doth raiae and erect... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1862 - 728 pages
...deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul; by reason whereof there is agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more...man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more beroical : because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to... | |
 | John Brown - 1862 - 492 pages
...DENY IT, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul; by reason whereof, there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, A MORE AMPLE GREATNESS, A MORE...VARIETY, than can be found in the nature of things. So it appeareth that Poesy" (and the others) " serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and... | |
 | John Brown - 1862 - 488 pages
...world being in proportion inferior to the soul; by reason whereof, there is, agreeable to the spirit uf man, A MORE AMPLE GREATNESS, A MORE EXACT GOODNESS...VARIETY, than can be found in the nature of things. So it appeareth that Poesy " ( and the others'} " serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1863 - 264 pages
...deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul; by reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more...successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more just in retribution, and more according... | |
 | John Parry - 1863 - 796 pages
...deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more...found in the nature of things. Therefore, because true history hath not in Its acts and ex'enU that magnitude, that justness, poesy feigneth acts and... | |
 | John Parry - 1863 - 780 pages
...tu the soul ; by reason whereof there is agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, ж more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety than...found in the nature of things. Therefore, because true history hath not in its acts and éventa that magnitude, that Justness, poesy felgneth acte and... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1864 - 464 pages
...deny it ; the world being in proportion inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is agreeable to the spirit of man a more ample greatness, a more exact...successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more just in retribution, and more according... | |
 | Joseph Napier - 1864 - 350 pages
...the fall) find in nature." He has elsewhere added—" a more exact goodness." ' Therefore (saith he) because the acts or events, of true history, have...successes and issues of actions, not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more just in retribution and more 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, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul; by reason whereof there is agreeable to the... 
