 | William Angus Knight - 1893 - 342 pages
...his analysis of it than Aristotle was in his. He speaks of Poetry as " feigned history," and says " 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." He finds that there is in " the spirit of man... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1893 - 290 pages
...same place Bacon tells us that the use of Poetry is "to give some satisfaction to the mind of man on those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world in proportion being inferior to the soul." And in many ages, from the time of Plato with his ideal... | |
 | William Basil Worsfold - 1897 - 310 pages
...essentially the modern conception of poetry. The use of Feigned History, or Poetry, Bacon says, is ' to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of...points wherein the nature of things doth deny it.' I now add the concluding sentences :2 ' Because true history representeth actions and events more ordinary... | |
 | James Orr - 1897 - 512 pages
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 | William Shakespeare - 1902 - 292 pages
...distinction between poetry and history. Bacon calls poetry feigned history, and well remarks that " the use of this feigned history 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... | |
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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... 
