...learning, and is nothing else but feigned history, 'which 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 the points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the...

...be styled [written] as well in prose as in Terse. The use of this feigned history hath been, to giro some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in...points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, tho world being in proportion inferior to the soul; by reason whereof, there is agreeable to the spirit...

...learning, and is nothing else but feigned history, which may be styled ae 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 the points wherein the nature of things doth deny it — the world being in proportion inferior to...

...learning, and is nothing else but feigned history, which 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 the points wherein the nature of things doth deny it — the world being in proportion inferior to...

..." The use of feigned history, or fiction, is to give to the mind of man some shadow of satisfaction in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it." The sympathies of Dickens have ever been with this Baconian theory ; and though many may affect to contemn...

...which may be styled as well in prose as in verse. The use of this feigned history hath been to jive some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in...there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample jreatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found in the nature of things....

...For if the matter be attentively considered, a sound argument may be drawn from Poesy, to show that there is agreeable to the spirit of man a more ample greatness, a more perfect order, and a more beautiful variety than it can anywhere (since the Fall) find in nature. And...

...signification of those many voices through which she speaks to man. For " the use of art," as Bacon tells us, " hath been to give some shadow of ' satisfaction to...points wherein the nature of ' things doth deny it : — a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, a ' more absolute variety, than can be found in...

...to which Bacon assigns the merit of poetry. Poetry .... is nothing else than Feigned History. . . . The use of this feigned History hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man on those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it ; the world being in proportion inferior...

...NOTES ON ART. " The use of this feigned history " (the Ideal Arts of Poesy, Painting, Music, &c.) " hath been to give SOME SHADOW OF SATISFACTION TO THE MIND OF MAN IN THESE POINTS WHEREIN THE NATURE OF THINGS DOTH DENY IT, the world being in proportion inferior to the...