 | Edmund Burke - 1877 - 660 Seiten
...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 man in 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 five years.... | |
 | 1795 - 758 Seiten
...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 - 240 Seiten
...this subject with much dignity and effect : " The use of this feigned history hath been to give -*some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those...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 - 320 Seiten
...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 man, in those...-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 - 316 Seiten
...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, a more ample greatness,... | |
 | 1865 - 790 Seiten
...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 in 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 - 804 Seiten
...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 in 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 432 Seiten
...may be styled 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 man in those...ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolnte variety, than can be found in the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts or events... | |
 | James Barry - 1831 - 228 Seiten
...poetry, he remarks most admirably and justly. " The use of thisfained historic hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points, wherein the nature of things doth denie it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soule: by reason whereof there is agreeable... | |
 | Robert Montgomery - 1832 - 474 Seiten
...' The use of this feigned history* hath bcen, to give some satisfaction to the mind of man in tho;e points wherein the nature of things doth deny it,...inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is, agrceable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more exaet goodness, and a more absolute... | |
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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... 
