...he) 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."...

...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 greatness, a more exact goodness, aud a more absolute variety, than can be found in the nature of things " ? Where, in fine, is the art...

...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 the nature of things." Hence it,is that the interest of a picture depends mainly upon the human element interfused in it,...

...things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof, there ii agreeable to the spirit of man a more ample greatness,...because the acts or events of true history have not thai magni aide which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical...

...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...variety, than can be found in the nature of things. Art doth raise and erect the mind by submitting the shews of things to the desires of the mind ; whereas...

...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...variety, than can be found in the nature of things. Art doth raise and erect the mind by submitting the shews of things to the desires of the mind ; whereas...

...the soul; by reason whereof, there is, agreeable to the spirit ufman, A MORE AMPLE GREATNESS, A MOKE EXACT GOODNESS AND A MORE ABSOLUTE VARIETY, than can be found in the nature of things. So it appeareth that Poesy" (and the others) " serveth and cimferreth to magnanimity, morality, and...

...proportion 1 AIlI-. of Learn., Book II. 3 Lib. II. c. 13. 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 satisficth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical : because true...

...inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is (ie in poetry), agreeable to (in order to satisfy) the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more...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...

...Tennyson has given us the highest proof of his genius and culture in these ' feigned ' histories of a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and...variety, than can be found in the nature of * things' — tricked with few ornaments of style to disturb our vision of ' the shows wherewith he doth raise...