...nature of things doth 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...events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical ; because true...

...nature of things doth 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...events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy fcigneth acts and events greater and more heroical : because true...

...intend that, for all poetical purposes, Nature should altogether be kept out of view. He thinks that there is agreeable to the spirit of man a more ample...variety, than can be found in the nature of things. He would, therefore, paint Feature in artistic colours, such as will give it more gaudiness and variety,...

...dares to call trash, and whose very definition of art was couched in expressions like these: — " There is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample...variety than can be found in the nature of things ; " " The use of feigned history is to give to the mind of man some shadow of satisfaction in those...

...as their virtues ; in other words, to imitate real life. Here again comes in the Baconian thunder. " Because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy (and Bacon's definition of poesy includes the proses-fiction) feigneth...

...nature of things doth 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...events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical; because true...

...nature of things doth 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...events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical ; because true...

..."ART: ITS CONSTITUTION AND CAPACITIES," " The world being inferior to the soul : by reason whereof, there is agreeable to the spirit of man a more ample...variety than can be found in the nature of things." LORD BACON : On the Advancement of Learning Bk, II, LONDON: LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, LONGMANS, AND ROBERTS....

...invention, but in the discovery of truth : — not only, in Lord Bacon's words, " for the invention of a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety," but to revive the neglected glories of the world as it is, to gather the fragments of splendour from...

...indicate very plainly his position : — ' The world being inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is agreeable to the spirit of man a more ample...variety than can be found in the nature of things.' Such is the ground occupied alike by the lovers of Plato and the lovers of Bacon; in fact, by every...