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... Great English Painters - Page xxxivby Allan Cunningham - 1886 - 311 pagesFull view - About this book
| George Dyer - Cambridge (England) - 1814 - 320 pages
...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...variety, than can be found in the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts, or events of true history, have not that magnitude which satisfitth the... | |
| Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1815 - 160 pages
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| England - 1865 - 790 pages
...where are the pictures which testify that " the world is in proportion inferior to the soul, and that there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample...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... | |
| England - 1865 - 804 pages
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| North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1843 - 706 pages
...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 spirit...variety, than can be found in the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the... | |
| Francis Bacon - English essays - 1824 - 642 pages
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| George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...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 spirit...variety, than can be found in the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...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 spirit...variety, than can be found in the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the... | |
| Francis Bacon - Logic - 1825 - 432 pages
...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 spirit...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... | |
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